The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. Iris Murdoch
Most of us can manage no more than a narrow little obsession with a particular human who we mistakenly imagine can satisfy our gargantuan yearning for the real, primordial thing. Rob Brezsny
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. alal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
The more we love someone, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that true love shows itself. Molière
I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe
I loved you head over handles like my first bicycle accident — before the mouthful of gravel and blood, I swore we were flying. Sierra DeMulder
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself. Francesco Petrarca
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Allen Ginsberg
