Louise Bogan Quotes

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

I always say horror films are great date movies. In the first twenty minutes, you're going to end up in each other's arms.

What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

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

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I will say to all the fellas out there that, seriously, I am a setup. I'm just like rose petals. I'm like incense. I'm a background thing for you when you do your thing with your lady. I'm a friend, only assisting you in your lurve machinations. So have no fear of me, people.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I love you garb’d but naked, more!

Marriage, for whatever reason, has always both interested and terrified me.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't win.

She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.

I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

Behold this little Bane- The Boon of all alive- As common as it is unknown The name of it is Love.