“They had been in love, desperately in love, but the universe cared nothing for the vicissitudes of the human heart.”

“Why hast thou nothing in thy face?
Thou idol of the human race,
Thou tyrant of the human heart,
The flower of lovely youth that art.”

“Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.”

“I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.”

“Giving and receiving love is one of the wonders of existence. Loving is attention, protection, care and passion. Love: it is daring to give your heart.”

“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”

“… Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?”

“But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.”

“We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.”

“One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.”