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“Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.”

Ifs Love Virtue Cold Negative Vices Baths Plunge

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.”

Ifs Thinking World Love Feels Writing Wells Kind Mean Dream Energy Speak Cold Fishes Absence Odd Decline Symptoms Without Love Excluded Live Well Caricatures

Author:Anita Brookner

“Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.”

Love Problem Running Cold Comfort Warm Running Away Making Love Delicious No Problem

Author:Larry Niven

“Love why do we one passion call, When 'tis a compound of them all? Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, In all their equipages meet; Where pleasures mix'd with pains appear, Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear.”

Love Pain Joy Passion Pleasure Sweet Cold Sorrow Hot Compounds Hot And Cold

Book:Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published

Source: Works: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers Not Hitherto Published

“Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.”

Love Principles Missing Cold Palaces Mills Cottages Splendour

Book:Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

Source: Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

“Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!”

Love Made Lying Wind Cold Beats Graves Sheets Clay Passing Away Tempest Spades

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.”

Love Order Waiting Morning Fire Huge Listening Cold Self Love Drink Jazz Suits Selfishness Hospitals Wet Selflessness Fitting

Author:Philip Larkin

“Nothing but real love--(how rare it is; has one human heart in a million ever known it?) nothing but real love can repay us for the loss of freedom--the cares and fears of poverty--the cold pity of the world that we both despise and respect.”

World Love Humans Heart Real Care Loss Known Poverty Millions Cold Pity Despise Real Love Human Heart Love Respect

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.”

Love Cold Dare Adore

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.”

Love Littles Reason Passion Felt Women Friendship Cold Reason Why Flats

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!”

Men Love Life Kindness Fire Rocks Cold Love Life Fire Of Love

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!”

Love Lost Changed Cold Losing Mourn

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.”

People Love Self Done Seems Cold Capacity Stones Bones Dry Indifferent Numb Inhuman Self Absorbed

Author:Elizabeth von Arnim