“A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down. Forgot in cruel happiness. That even lovers drown.” -William Butler Yeats

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Most part of a lover’s life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness.” -Robert Burton

“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.” -Soren Kierkegaard