Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
-William Cowper
Quotations
Love
And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.
-Leo Tolstoy
There lives at least one being who can never change - one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness - who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles, who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
-Charles Dickens
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
-Emily Giffin
"Something Blue"
The blossom of love will make the air fragrant; the river of love will murmur along the valleys; and every bird, beast and child will sing the song of love.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Love must be one and two at the same time.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Our first and last love is – self love.
-Christian Nestell Bovee
On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step.
-Nadeem Aslam
"The Wasted Vigil"
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
There is no love that is not an echo.
-Theodor W. Adorno
