Shrinking Lover

Famous quotes containing the words shrinking and/or lover:

““There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

“Discovering that his love is reciprocated really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. “What? She is so unassuming as to love even you? Or so stupid? Or—? Or—?””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)