There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.


The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford: The good soldier. Selected memories. Poems (ed. 1962)

Ford Madox Ford Quotes

There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties....

There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties....

There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties....

There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties....