„I am no romantic glorifier of the Spanish woman, nor did I ever think of a casual piece as anything much other than a casual piece in any country. But when I am with Maria I love her so that I feel, literally, as though I would die and I never believed in that or thought that it could happen.“

— Ernest Hemingway

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„I am so daunted by [reputation] that I never think about it. It is a thing bigger than I am capable of perceiving. Other people are more aware and concerned with it than I could ever allow myself to be.“
— Meryl Streep
„I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„If I thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.“
— Margaret Atwood
„Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.“
— Sylvia Plath
„In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.“
— Tennessee Williams