Desire

Desire

LOVE

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the
desire of the woman is for the desire of the
man."
-- Germaine de Stael

"Love is like quicksilver in the hand.
Leave the fingers open and it stays.
Clutch it and it darts away."
-- Dorothy Parker

"Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest."
-- Sir Henry Wotton

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like
a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The
consciousness of loving and being loved brings a
warmth and richness to life that nothing else can
bring."
-- Oscar Wilde

"Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love
we die from."
-- Margaret Atwood

"Today we may seek for romance and fail to find
it: unsought, it lies in wait for us at the most
prosaic corners of life's highway."
-- Dr. Petrie, in The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax
Rohmer, writer

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it
can ever end."
-- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Henrietta Temple
(1837)

"Love is the word used to label the sexual
excitment of the young, the habituation of the
middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the
old."
-- John Ciardi, American poet, educator, critic
(1916-1986)

"I love you, and because I love you, I would
sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth
than adore me for telling you lies."
-- Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly
desired."
-- Robert Frost

"Today I begin to understand what love must be,
if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel
the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are
incomplete like a book in two volumes of which
the first has been lost. That is what I imagine
love to be: incompleteness in absence."
-- Goncourt

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of
the wise."
-- Samuel Johnson