Love Quotes by Mason Cooley

The beloved is the ultimate fetish.

— Mason Cooley

Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

— Mason Cooley

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

In love, self-love is always at risk.

— Mason Cooley

Everything changes as it is written down.

— Mason Cooley

Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.

— Mason Cooley

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.

— Mason Cooley

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

— Mason Cooley

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

— Mason Cooley

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

— Mason Cooley

The best propaganda omits rather than invents

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

— Mason Cooley

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

— Mason Cooley

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

— Mason Cooley

Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

— Mason Cooley