“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”
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E.M. Forster book A Room with a View
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Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
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“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
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“I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.”
James K. Polk (1795–1849) American politician, 11th President of the United States (in office from 1845 to 1849)
Last words, spoken to his wife (15 June 1849); as quoted in Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells (2004) by Laura Ward.
“Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love.”
Nélson Rodrigues (1912–1980) Brazilian writer and playwright
Memórias - Page 62, by Nelson Rodrigues - Published by Edições Correio de Manhã, 1967