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Loving you
is not a choice
And not much reason
To recjoice.
-- Stephen Sondheim

You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did. -- Marilyn Peterson

It is far better to be deceived than to be undeceived by thoose whome we love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love never dies of starvation but often of indigestion. -- Ninon de Lenclos

O what a heaven is love! O what a hell! -- Middleton and Derker

Love, like despair, catches at straws. -- Sir Walter Scott

Illusions are the mirror of love. -- Moore

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. -- John Donne

Love, since thou art so changeable in men's estates, how art thou so constant in their torments? -- Sidney

She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm in the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat, like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. -- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night,

Oh love, all other pleasures are not worth thy pains. -- Charleval

Ah me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. -- Shakespeare, MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Act i. Sc. 1.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- Shakespeare, MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Act i. Sc. 1.

At lover's perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs. -- Shakespeare, ROMEO AND JULIET, Act ii. Sc. 2.

'Tis not love's goings hurts my days,
But that it went in little ways.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is too young to know what conscience is. -- Shakespeare, Sonnet

My first wife divorce me on the grounds of incompatibilitym and besides, I think she hated me. -- Oscar Levant

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish. -- Christopher S. Drew

Take, O take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn;
But my kisses bring again,
Seals of love, but sealed in vain. -- "The Bloody Brother, or Rollo, Duke of Normandy," by Beaumont and Fletcher, Act 5, Sc. 2 (also plagiarized by Shakespeare who used this quote verbatim in Twelfth Night, Act iv. Sc. 1.

Where love fails we espy all faults. -- John Ray

A girl (and perhaps the same thing applies to a boy) would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if she could feel that she had been sinful rather than a fool. -- Phyllis McGinley

The heart that can no longer
Love passionately, must with fury hate
-- Racine (1667)

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and fee for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more. -- Erica Jong

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. -- Peter Ustinov

Each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man does with a sword!
-- Oscar Wilde

Doubt thou the stars are tire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love. -- Shakespeare, HAMLET, Act ii. Sc. 2.

Of one that loved not wisely, but too well. -- Shakespeare

Silence in love betrays more love
Than words, though ne'er so witty;
A beggar that is dumb, you know,
May challenge double pity. --
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

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