Love Quotes (page 510)
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!
Marcel Proust
![Glenn Beck quote: "Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone..."](/pic/352519/600x316/quotation-glenn-beck-everyone-wants-to-feel-loved-but-when-all-you-feel.jpg)
![Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most..."](/pic/352411/600x316/quotation-gilbert-k-chesterton-the-most-comic-things-of-all-are-exactly.jpg)
the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.
Harold Brodkey
![Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain..."](/pic/352385/600x316/quotation-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-the-heights-charm-us-but-the-steps.jpg)
I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me—
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Wherever they drive the boat.
To put meaning in...
Edgar Lee Masters
![Peter S. Beagle quote: "- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and..."](/pic/352378/600x316/quotation-peter-s-beagle-and-you-are-truly-human-now-you-can-love-and.jpg)