Love Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“Ultimately, we lacked the courage to face up to our own true selves—our bare forms noble though petty, everything though nothing, almighty though powerless,…

— Sakyo Komatsu

“Human beings were meant to love, and life was empty without that.”

— Mary Jane Clark

“For fairness and loyalty, however important to the head, were issues that could seldom be squared in the human heart, at the deepest depths…

— Richard Russo

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive, we were not free, merely licensed, we were not compassionate, we were polite,…

— Toni Morrison

“We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing…

— Charles Dickens

“Maybe, I thought, I’ve given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation;…

— Elena Ferrante

“It wasn’t as easy for others to accept the darker side of themselves. Most like to cling to the notion that hesitation still marked…

— Teresa Mummert

“Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the…

— David Grann

“Was that such a heresy, to admit that your love for your family wasn't sufficiently all-consuming as to extinguish all other desires?”

— Christopher Brookmyre

“And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite;…

— Toni Morrison

“There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever…

— Joanne Harris