Bad chances were better than no chances.
Stephen King
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire
Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.
Otomo No Yakamochi
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
La Rochefoucauld
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
La Rochefoucauld
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
Abraham Crowley
Do not tell me, for I've heard it all, there is too much to do with hate, but much more to do with love.
William Shakespeare
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
Cyril Connolly