„The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne.Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge,The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne;Al this mene I be love.“

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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„Love is so short and forgetting is so long.“
— Pablo Neruda
„I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.“
— Pablo Neruda
„I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.“
— Sylvia Plath
„How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„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