Anne Louise Germaine de Staël on Love

“Where we really love, we often dread more than we desire the solemn moment that exchanges hope for certainty.”

“Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”

“L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes. Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.”

“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.”