“By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.”

“Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.”

Stephen R. Lawhead (1950) American writer

“As you are woman, so be lovely:
As you are lovely, so be various,
Merciful as constant, constant as various,
So be mine, as I yours for ever.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

“If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

“We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.”

John Updike Brazil

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.”

Samuel R. Delany book The Einstein Intersection

“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”

José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist

“Constant interruptions are the destruction of imagination.”

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author

“When love is intense, authentic and constant, happiness is a reflection.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer