Isak Dinesen Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Louise Erdrich Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them. Euripides Love makes the time pass.
Time makes love pass.
French proverb Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. The love we give away is the only love we keep.