Profane Love

Famous quotes containing the words profane love, profane and/or love:

    Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:
    Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot
    A constant habit; that when I would not
    I change in vows, and in devotion.
    As humorous is my contrition
    As my profane Love, and as soon forgot:
    As ridlingly distempered, cold and hot,
    John Donne (1572–1631)

    One word is too often profaned
    For me to profane it,
    One feeling too falsely disdained
    For thee to disdain it;
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
    —Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928)