Stendhal Quotes

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

I think women love a passionate love story.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

You know when women look their best? When they're in love.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference." Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene. Because," said Pellegrina, "She was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her.

I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance.

Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.