“Love was an agony beyond compare”
“Love, he thought as he held her to his heart, was an agony beyond compare.”
“That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.”
“And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the agony beyond all enduring, because after the beauty and the loveliness comes the sorrow and the pain.”
“Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.”
“Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”