“Love isn't actually a feeling at all--it's an illness, a certain condition of body and soul.... Usually it takes possession of someone without his permission, all of a sudden, against his will--just like cholera or a fever.” SoulFeelingsBodyCertainLove IsConditionsIllnessPossessionPermissionFeverCholera Book:Essential Turgenev Source: Essential Turgenev
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.” KnowsFirstsLastsDiesStrongForceStarsVoiceNaturalLove IsSilenceKnow HowSunSourceOppositesErrorsMereIllnessBetrayalWoundsBlindnessWearinessWitheringEliotNatural DeathLove Never Dies Author:e. e. cummings