The tragedy is not that love doesn't last.
Tragedy is the love that lasts.
- Shirley Hazzard
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Honore de Balzac
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
- Marc Chagall
Love...is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.
- Marton Hunt
Love is the same as like except you fell sexier.
- Judith Viorst
Love is my religion - I could die for that.
- John Keats, a letter to Fanny Brawne
Whoever opens himself up to the river of love loses his home: he exists in the Universe. Love reaches from the body to the last star, it is a bond which endures. One can never forsake love. Love is omnipresent, it is all consuming, it is all knowing. Where there is a lack of awareness, love is destroyed. Love requires your complete participation.
- Arnold Keyserling
Charles is life itself - pure life, force, like sunlight - and it is for this that I married him and this that holds me to him - caring always, caring desperately what happens to him and whatever he happens to be involved in.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
- Robert Sternberg
Cupid's dart had hit both targets and set the Nile on fire. And the Tiber. Even the Thams sizzled a bit.
- Emlyn Williams, on 1963 romance of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor while filming Cleopatra in Egypt
