Anguish Quote by Francoise Sagan

“Clinging to what is dear brings sorrow and fear. Sorrow and fear spring from affection; from indulgence in sensual pleasures; from preoccupation with lustful…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of…

— Thomas Hardy

“Is love a passionate embrace, where you grab but cannot taste. your lustfull urge will surely replace, that bitter sweet pleasure that only leads…

— Pierre Blundell

“Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The fear of love can be replaced by the love of fear”

— Michael Biondi

The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all…

— Germaine Greer

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire,…

— Socrates

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of…

— Germaine Greer

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

— P. D. James

“To appreciate pleasure, someone had to experience pain; to appreciate joy, some had to experience sorrow; to appreciate love, some had to experience heartache;…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan) Footnote : A form of self-edification,…

— The Poet Archibald MacLeish