Famous Writers on Love
- “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”- Jane Austen.
- “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”- Vladimir Nabokov
- “Who, being loved, is poor?”- Oscar Wilde.
- “Reason is powerless in the expression of love.”- Rumi.
- “The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.” - Paulo Coelho.
- “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”- Kahlil Gibran.
- “I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.”- Franz Kafka.
- “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”- Fyodor Dostoevsky.
- “I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”- Haruki Murakami.
- “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”- Alfred Tennyson.
- “There is no remedy for love but to love more.”- Henry David Thoreau
- “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.” - Roald Dahl.
- “I love you, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- “We are asleep until we fall in love!”- Leo Tolstoy
- "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”- Plato.
- “We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”- Dr Seuss
- “Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs.”- William Shakespeare.
- “As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love”- Anne Sexton.
- “When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.” - Hans Christian Andersen.
- “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”- Robert Frost.
- “In Love, one and one are one.”- Jean Paul Sartre
- “Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.”- Guy De Maupassant.
- “Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way.”- Pablo Neruda.
- “My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”- John Keats.
- “Love is madness. If thwarted it develops fast.’- Mark Twain.
25The woman flashed her a sharp look. “Yes, my dear,” she said dryly, “but remember you pay for it. You pay for it all in the end.”
- Sylvia Plath, “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom: A Story”
5Reading the bell jar to have something to relate to while my own mental health has plummeted
2tw: themes of death & suicide.
this poem is a bit too on the nose. i had posted it years ago & deleted it & now it’s back. hooray! be careful when reading it, remind yourself that you’re deserve a long and happy life. we deserve to be delighted.
we’ve all had those moments, days, months, or years when we are so overwhelmed & or underwhelmed we can’t see the future. i am here to tell you to choose yourself & choose life. we are the best thing in the world& the things that have mad you want to die don’t deserve your death, capiche?
You are a walking miracle, we are walking miracles, we are glorious.
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sylvia plath’s account of the night she met her future husband and love of her life, ted hughes circa february 25th, 1956.
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And who would’t want to celebrate her birthday with this beautiful Victorian style leather book inspired Sylvia Plath cake made by the reddit user Atomic_Crumpet!? ❤
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Florence+The Machine- Kiss With a Fist // Sylvia Plath- Fever 103° // The Front Bottoms- Twin Size Mattress // unknown // Florence + The Machine- Only If For a Night
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Immagino che sarò sempre molto vulnerabile,
lievemente paranoica. Ma sono anche maledettamente
robusta e resistente. E felice come una pasqua.Sylvia Plath
30“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences. ”
sylvia plath, the unabridged journals of sylvia plath.
2perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
sylvia plath.
3“i took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. i am, i am, i am.”
sylvia plath, the bell jar.
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