BREAK UP

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Lyster

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
Germaine Greer

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.
Malcolm Gladwell

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.
Gary Zukav

Why was I so blind that I couldn't see our love was changing underneath our very noses.
Jessica Sharp

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges

Simply put, Love is like a hand-grenade. If you don't throw it away from you as fast as you pull the pin, there is a 99.9% certainty that you are going to get hurt.
Matt V

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
Ronald David Laing

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
Maureen Duffy

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
William Shakespeare

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
George Meredith

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
Adrienne Rich

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.
Frank Tebbets

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
St. John of the Cross

For what is a Rose without a Baby's Breath? Is it not 'incomplete'
Carl Stoynoff

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]
Bible

In search of a Rose you sometimes overlook an orchid.
Carol Harris

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.
Jerome Klapka Jerome

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky