One does not kill oneself for love of a
woman, but because love -- any love --
reveals us in our nakedness, our misery,
our vulnerability, our nothingness.
?Cesare Pavese
There are few people who are not ashamed
of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
?François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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.
?Marguerite Yourcenar
Strange, that some of us, with quick
alternate vision, see beyond our
infatuations, and even while we rave
on the heights, behold the wide plain where
our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
?George Eliot
...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry -
that isn't much to ask, is it Charles?
Is it Charles?
?Jean Giraudoux
It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but
to love foolishly is better than not
to be able to love at all.
?William M. Thackeray
I understand by this passion the
union of desire, friendship, and
tenderness, which is inflamed by
a single female, which prefers her
to the rest of her sex, and which
seeks her possession as the supreme
or the sole happiness of our being.
?Edward Gibbon
The essence of love begins
when infatuation ends.
?Source Unknown
