Charles Kingsley Quotes

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.

Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

My only love sprung from my only hate.

There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

You fall in love, and it completely consumes you.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Who loves, raves.

Principally, I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartedly love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth …

I'm a lover and a fighter.

There's not much difference between love and hate.

Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.

War and love - they have much in common. You can theorize about them, but until you have experienced them, you cannot know them, for the emotions that they engender are as complicated and as conflicting, as noble and as ignoble, as any that life has to offer.

Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.

I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

Perhaps... you love too fiercely.

Love: It will kill you and save you, both