Love Quote by Henry James

“...the passion of love separated its victim terribly from everyone but the loved object.”

— Henry James

“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated in envy,…

— Toni Morrison

“When I was a girl, I imagined love was a kind of prize for virtuous behavior. That was how the philosophers described it. Love…

— Phyllis T. Smith

The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it,…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“It was amazing how love—or was it just passion?—had destroyed her objectivity and neutered her common sense.”

— Randy Singer

“This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded from the fact that she had never…

— Thornton Wilder

“She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can…

— Madhu Vajpayee

“Idle, she writes, to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of minds, of thoughts,; it is a simultaneous firing of two spirits engaged…

— Lawrence Durrell

“It astounds him that the tiny life of the girl means more to him than all the millennia before it. He struggles to make…

— M.L. Stedman

“It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in…

— Edward Carpenter

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

— Charles Baudelaire

She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth…

— Thornton Wilder