„A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him up for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed; and plunging downForgot in cruel happinessThat even lovers drown.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray
„To Love is to reach God.Never will a Lover's chestfeel any sorrow.Never will a Lover's robebe touched by mortals.Never will a Lover's bodybe found buried in the earth.To Love is to reach God.“
— Rumi
„And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?“
— Socrates