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.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I read more

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each read more

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.

He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.