Dirt Quote by Toni Morrison

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his…

— Kate Chopin

... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones,…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the…

— Thomas Mann

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was…

— Mary Balogh

“it is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us”

— Jane Austen

“The love, born of beauty was not mine; I had nothing in common with it: I could not dare to meddle with it, but…

— Charlotte Brontë

“There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Vanity's a debilitating affliction. You're so in absorbed in yourself it's impossible to love anyone other than oneself, leaving you weak without realization of…

— Fisher Amelie

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The…

— Albert Einstein

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two…

— Anonymous

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh…

— Thomas Huxley