Nights, sweet as they, Made short by lovers play, Yet long by the absence of the day.
— Richard Crashaw
Bashful Short Sweet Love quotations
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time.
You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are.
Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, after the day's great sun.
My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.
I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun does show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
