diseased quotes

Whenlovegrows diseased,thebestthing we candoisto put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

- Sir George Etherege
  The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.

Klassisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das Kranke. The classical period was healthy; the romantic diseased.

-JohannWolfgang von Goethe
  Spru«  che in Prosa, Maximen und Reflexionen, pt.7.