Blood Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood…

— Graham Greene

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would…

— Cassandra Clare

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could…

— Marcel Proust

“…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of…

— Patrick Süskind

Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with…

— Harry Crews

“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

“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with the appearance…

— Josephine Humphreys

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he…

— W. Somerset Maugham

This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love)…

— Djuna Barnes