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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
- Women
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Often credited to Emily Dickinson
- Beauty
- Marriage
Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Letter to Sir Robert Cecil (10 May 1593)
- Emotion
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy Love.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (1600)In context
- Truth & Lies
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (1600)In context
Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.
Ayn Rand1905–1982Apollo and Dionysus (1969)
- Thinking
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. V: The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957His motto, in the preamble of Charakteranalyse (1933)
- Knowledge
- Work
Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957The Function of the Orgasm (1942)
- Health
Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957Listen, Little Man! (1948)
- Freedom
- Money
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard1864–1910
You can be married and bored, or single and lonely. Ain’t no happiness nowhere.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they’re loved and capable of loving.
Fred Rogers1928–2003Fred Rogers: America’s Favorite Neighbor (television documentary), 2003.
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
Will Rogers1879–1935
- Marriage