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XAIPE (1950)
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?”
Source: The Odds: A Love Story
Source: A Walk to Remember
“Sometimes the love you'll feel after you've been hurt is stronger than ever.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 124
The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon (trans. Thomas Forester), Book VI
Godwin supposedly said this just before he choked to death on a piece of bread at the table of King Edward "the Confessor", but the story is very doubtful.
Misattributed
Source: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7, (1910), p. 407
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), IV
Context: Well, granted that it was only a dream, yet the sensation of the love of those innocent and beautiful people has remained with me for ever, and I feel as though their love is still flowing out to me from over there. I have seen them myself, have known them and been convinced; I loved them, I suffered for them afterwards. Oh, I understood at once even at the time that in many things I could not understand them at all … But I soon realised that their knowledge was gained and fostered by intuitions different from those of us on earth, and that their aspirations, too, were quite different. They desired nothing and were at peace; they did not aspire to knowledge of life as we aspire to understand it, because their lives were full. But their knowledge was higher and deeper than ours; for our science seeks to explain what life is, aspires to understand it in order to teach others how to love, while they without science knew how to live; and that I understood, but I could not understand their knowledge.
“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.”
“Does anyone ever get this right?
I feel no love.”
"The Vampyre of Time and Memory", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age
