Love Quote by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“And then, after the first blush of the admiration which he could not help feeling, he began to be tortured by the pangs of…

— Alexandre Dumas

“He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear”

— William Golding

“For love, as he knew it, was an aberration, a form of temporary insanity, a shortlived state of autosuggestion. Love was a state which…

— Robert Sheckley

“Of all our games, love’s play is the only one which threatens to unsettle our soul, and is also the only one in which…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work and forget.…

— Aminatta Forna

“He plunged his arms deep to embrace One who vanished in agitated water. Again and again he kissed The lips that seemed to be…

— Publius Ovidius Naso

“What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears and sighs that allowed me…

— St. Augustine

“He shuddered because he was seized--suddenly and almost hauntingly--by the knowledge that love was magic, more wonderful than all that had gone before, deep,…

— Paul Leppin

“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened, would be…

— Katherine Arden

“And what agony, thought Krug the thinker, to love so madly a little creature, formed in some mysterious fashion (even more mysterious to us…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“All that was needed was a shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms…

— Gabriel Garcia Márquez

“The fault in suffering such torment is his, for his heart's boundless capacity to love was given so that he might direct it toward…

— Said Nursi