“Love can be a very frightening thing.’ ‘That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”
“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
“If our love's tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?”
“It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.”
“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.”
“And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.”