Stendhal Love Quotations

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.