Love Quotes by Mason Cooley · Page 2

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Everything changes as it is written down.

— Mason Cooley

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

— Mason Cooley

Indifference creates an artificial peace.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

— Mason Cooley

Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

— Mason Cooley

Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

Like love, grief fades in and out.

— Mason Cooley

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

— Mason Cooley

If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley

I love you to distraction, but Icannot see you until Thursday.

— Mason Cooley

In love, self-love is always at risk.

— Mason Cooley

The familiar changes as we cling to it.

— Mason Cooley

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

— Mason Cooley

In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

— Mason Cooley

Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

— Mason Cooley

I can neither return your love nor dismiss it.

— Mason Cooley

I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

— Mason Cooley

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

— Mason Cooley

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

— Mason Cooley

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

— Mason Cooley

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

— Mason Cooley

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

— Mason Cooley

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

— Mason Cooley

Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

— Mason Cooley

Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.

— Mason Cooley

The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Mason Cooley