Full Idea
As for lovers, they would be hateful if among their grimaces the presentiment of death did not hover.
Gist of Idea
Lovers are hateful, apart from their hovering awareness of death
Source
E.M. Cioran (A Short History of Decay [1949], 1 'Gamut')
Book Reference
Cioran,E.M.: 'A Short History of Decay', ed/tr. Howard,Richard [Penguin 2010], p.44
A Reaction
A nice existential corrective, if you were planning to build an ethical system around a rather sentimental idea of love! If you are not gripped by a latent fear that your beloved may die, I doubt whether you are in love.