“If my heart could speak, it'd say that it is not necessary that the heart of a person who is pleasing to the eyes should also be beautiful, love the one who loves you, hold the hand that never leaves you. Love the one who wipes the tears and doesn't give.”

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

John Dufresne (1948) Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

“How could one speak properly about love if you were forgotten, you God of love, source of all love in heaven and on earth; you who spared nothing but in love gave everything; you who are love, so that one who loves is what he is only by being in you.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.”

Derek Walcott (1930–2017) Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright

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

William Shakespeare Macbeth

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“You could be my unintended choice
To live my life extended.
You could be the one I'll always love.
You could be the one who listens
To my deepest inquisitions.
You could be the one I'll always love.”

Matthew Bellamy (1978) English singer-songwriter

“That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

“People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.”

LeBron James (1984) American basketball player