Cause and effect Quote by Voltaire

“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward to an…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god's presence. At such times love…

— Jack London

“Love was not something to be felt, not a particular emotion, nor yet a particular shade of feeling, it was much more like a…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I also believed that love was nothing more than a precursor for pain. After all, this world has no room for love. It’s harsh…

— Keri Lake

“Had they nothing else to say to each other? Yet their eyes were full of more serious statements; and while they sought for commonplace…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than…

— Jane Austen

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“As the days went by, the evolution of LIKE into LOVE was accelerated. White Fang himself began to grow aware of it, though in…

— Jack London

“...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.”

— Irene Hunt

“Each one of us had been starved for love for so long that we wanted to believe that love, once found, was all-powerful. We…

— Audre Lorde

“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there were too…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

“Because affection, she had learned, was such a civilized thing, compared to love. It exacted so much less and was therefore more enduring. And…

— Karen Fisher