#love

"Don't worry about hurting me, if that's what you're afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I´ll feel something for a change."

"We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being."

"Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship."

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."

"Like time suspended, a wound unmended-- you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I'll wonder why."

"You have a... remarkable memory.""I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention."

"You aren't alive if you aren't in need."

"There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy."

"Either I will love you, or I will love you if and only if you love me in return. I prefer the former."

"It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams."

"I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy."

"What made you fall in love with a prostitute?”“I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul."

"I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing."

"I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine"

"Romantic Ring Ceremony Define this wedding ring,with which I betroth thee unto me forever,not by the confining boundaries of it's goldbut by the empty circle within -that perfect portal to your loving heartyou have opened for me, and me alone -as I have opened mine for you."

"And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there and the moss.And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,my cheap violin and my cross."

"You are the love, the lover, and the beloved."

"Combine a fog machine and a cotton candy maker to create delicious mystery. This is the heart of romance."