Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

Don't fall in love with someone you can live with, fall in love with someone you can't live without.

The final word is love.

So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.

I love you as one loves certain dark things.

I love you. I'm madly in love with you. Well, madly obviously, given I'm mad as a mudlark. But you saved my life. I'd be dead without you. And you're so good to me. And you love me too. How lucky is that? Amazing! Amazingly lucky. I can't live without you. You're my lucky charm." She felt a sudden desire to kill Justin's well-meaning friend.

I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.

I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responded to those signs I awaited with other signs I made myself, or rather it was I who aroused them, these signs from her, which I answered with other signs of my own . . .

Love is one of the most subtle blessings that the All-Merciful One has bestowed upon humanity.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary.

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.