Acts of love Quote by Charles Baudelaire Download Open image “The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.” — Charles Baudelaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acts of love Love Surgery Torture
In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Love is like a rubber band, Both pull on, one release And it hurts the person who has held it. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the senses, poetic lies from which one gets ferociously inebriated two or three times a day in order to consume this precious but stupid life more quickly. And yet I would prefer to die of love.… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share
LOVE is like the action similar to an hourglass: the heart fills as the brain empties. — Nikhil Saluja 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
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“When people think of slavery, they think of whips, chains and neurological implants. While these things may be necessary, the real tools of a… — Kalin Ringkvist Copy Share Image
Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of work. There… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day.… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death, — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
