A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Jeremy Taylor
Some Similar Quotes
  1. The heart has its reasons which reason knows not. - Blaise Pascal

  2. Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. - Jalaluddin Rumi

  3. His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before. - James Joyce

  4. Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. - Unknown

  5. I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow. - Emilie Autumn

More Quotes By Jeremy Taylor
  1. The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

  2. Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emission of our thoughts the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.

  3. Teach us to pray often that we may pray oftener.

  4. Love is friendship set on fire.

  5. A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

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