Love Quotes by Mason Cooley

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

— Mason Cooley

Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.

— Mason Cooley

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

— Mason Cooley

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

— Mason Cooley

To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

— Mason Cooley

Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

— Mason Cooley

The best propaganda omits rather than invents

— Mason Cooley

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

— Mason Cooley

Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

— Mason Cooley

An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.

— Mason Cooley

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

— Mason Cooley

Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

— Mason Cooley

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.

— Mason Cooley

People often are unsure whether or not they are in love, but they generally know whether or not they are having sex.

— Mason Cooley

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

— Mason Cooley

The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

— Mason Cooley

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

— Mason Cooley

The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

— Mason Cooley

Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.

— Mason Cooley

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

— Mason Cooley

Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.

— Mason Cooley

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

— Mason Cooley

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

— Mason Cooley

In love, self-love is always at risk.

— Mason Cooley

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

— Mason Cooley

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

— Mason Cooley

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

— Mason Cooley

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

— Mason Cooley

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

— Mason Cooley

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

— Mason Cooley

Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

— Mason Cooley

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

— Mason Cooley

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

— Mason Cooley

Everything changes as it is written down.

— Mason Cooley

Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.

— Mason Cooley

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

— Mason Cooley

Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

— Mason Cooley

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

— Mason Cooley

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

— Mason Cooley

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

— Mason Cooley