I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

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.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself read more

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected- in so far as it could read more

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected- in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.

When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that read more

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.