“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies”

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

it's always good to know where you stand with someone, that way you will never will be disappointed...

"I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

"His touch brought with it the strangest sense of relief — as if I'd been in pain and that pain had suddenly ceased."

Originally Posted by CuTe_ClAsSy

"His touch brought with it the strangest sense of relief — as if I'd been in pain and that pain had suddenly ceased."

where is this from?

Originally Posted by babypie

where is this from?

Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer

Quote:

"Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes-a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

"I'd been wondering whether there is a meaning to a failed love. Is something that disappeared the same as something that never existed? But now I know there is---There was a meaning right here...Because despite the heartbreak, I'm still glad that I fell in love with you."

Takemoto (HnC)

"I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of."

— Charles Bukowski (Love is a Dog From Hell: Poems, 1974-1977)

"There would be more than ocean water broken
Before God's last 'Put out the light' was spoken.

Robert Frost "Once by the Pacific"
Very timely, yes?

Comparing his own generation with the preceding one, Sartre concluded: " We are more unhappy, but nicer to know".
Memoires of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Quote:

"From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing that she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended."

-Ian Mc.Ewan, Atonement.

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined...or one great figure...or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

Philip K. Dick (the Man in the High Castle)

"I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living"

— John Fante (Full of Life)

Don’t stop to think, don’t interrupt the scream, exhale, release life’s rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming, choking on its screams. Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That is all there is to life.

"Gods" (short story) by Vladimir Nabokov