Love Quote by Charles Baudelaire Download Open image ““The act of love greatly resembles torture or surgery.”” — Charles Baudelaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Love
In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share
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“(...) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“love is not just excitement, tenderness, feeling special; it is also a bone-crushing reality of pain.” — Melissa A. Hanson Copy Share Image
“To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan) Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.” — The Poet Archibald MacLeish Copy Share
“Love is like a hammer, inevitably it will crush you & cause severe pain.” — Alison Helmick Copy Share Image
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“Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and loves you?” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“This life is a hospital in which each patient is possessed by the desire to change beds. One wants to suffer in front of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
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I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
I love going to Columbia, Missouri. That is a really underrated campus. It shocked me when I went there because I really didn't know… — Kirk Herbstreit Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
“To be loved by a man, truly loved, made a woman feel as if she could burst. Of course, Lia was strong and could… — Melody Anne Copy Share Image
So when you take those tears, don't look to see I'm alright. …*Seal - Violet — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
