Obtained Negative

Famous quotes containing the words obtained and/or negative:

“In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)