Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the read more

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Making love is celestial, making war is terrifying.

Making love is celestial, making war is terrifying.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall read more

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one read more

I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.