"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."
― Thomas Moore
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From Thomas Moore
- "Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."
- "Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed."
- "Came but for friendship, and took away love."
More In Beauty
- "I’m still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it’s generic beauty, but it’s weird to be valued for something I was born with."― Josie Maran
- "The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."― Edward F. Halifax
- "Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life."― John Millington Synge