Cyril Connolly Quotes about Love

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Cyril Connolly

Love, Dream, Lonely

"Phil Spector: What I've Learned", www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

Cyril Connolly

Love, Doubt, Doctrine

"The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1945.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Cyril Connolly

Love, Greed, Comfort

"The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Cyril Connolly

Love, Strong, Pain

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Cyril Connolly

Love, Marriage, Parent

David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”