Marguerite Duras: Quotes about love

“He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.”

“I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.”

“She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.”

“I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.”

“In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?”

“Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

“It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”

“Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime.
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

“It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.”