“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”

“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”

“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”

“Only God knows how much I love you.”

“his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.”

“She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of thwarted love.”