“In the end, I've found that it doesn't really matter who you marry. If you like them at the beginning, you probably won't like them at the end. And if you start off hating them, there's always the chance you'll end up thinking they're all right.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take…”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“There are some things you don’t learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”— Kiera Cass, amazon.com
“It wasn’t real. I deluded myself. I had this aching need to be loved and it was screwing with my head. Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you’ll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he appears.”— Ilona Andrews, amazon.com
“To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.”— Michael Jackson, facebook.com
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Unfortunately, what my head wanted and what my heart wanted were two completely different things.”— Rachel Vincent, amazon.com
“He held me when my insecurities were as sharp as a knife and at every moment they got sharper, he held me even tighter.”— Maram Rimawi, twitter.com
“Your heart just breaks, that’s all. But you can’t judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.”— Audrey Hepburn, amazon.com
“Because it is beyond all bearing – The pain of loving soul’s silence.”— Anna Akhmatova, poetryloverspage.com
“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com