Love
“If I could be any part of you, I’d be your tears. To be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.”
-Shakespeare
“Passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; sometimes they sink it; but without them it would be impossible to make way”
-Voltaire
“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”
-Miguel de Unamuno
“It is with true love as with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.”
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“He who looses himself in passion has lost less that he who has lost his passion”
-St Augustine
“Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire”
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld