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- Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.
(Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.) - Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)
- What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. - Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
- In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
- Alan Paton (1903 - 1988), Cry the Beloved Country
- When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
- The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
- Robertson Davies
- There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
- Orson Scott Card (1951 - ), Ender's Game
- I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
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