Quotes from Mason Cooley

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

Only those in comfortable circumstances think love is the most important thing.

Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

In love, self-love is always at risk.

Saying "I love you" makes a demand, but creates no obligations.

I love you in my dreams, but not in real life.

Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

Like love, grief fades in and out.

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

Hatred observes with more care than love does.

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.

The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.