Love Stinks

“Your absence has not taught
me to be alone, it merely has
shown that when together we
cast a single shadow on the wall.”

“Parting is all we know of heaven.
And all we need of hell.”

“Where you used to be,
there’s a hole in the world,
which I find myself constantly
walking around in the daytime,
and falling into at night. I miss
you like hell.”

“To love is to suffer, to be loved is to cause suffering.”

“It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because
if one were on good terms one would not part.”

“Come back to me in dreams; that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago.”

“Remembered and afar
I watched you as I watched a star,
Through darkness struggling into view
And I love you better than you knew.”

“To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! ’tis delicious to hate you!”

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”