"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet."

Shakespeare, William | Love | 6 bookmarks

"Love is too young to know what conscience is."

Shakespeare, William | Love | 4 bookmarks

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]"

Shakespeare, William | Dreams | 4 bookmarks

"To me, the sea is like a person -- like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there."

Ederle, Gertrude | Sea | 5 bookmarks

"Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust."

Dickinson, Emily | Death and Dying | 6 bookmarks

"Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."

Pope, Alexander | Death and Dying | 6 bookmarks

"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."

Williams, Tennessee | Change | 2 bookmarks

"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

Williams, Tennessee | Suffering | 2 bookmarks

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going."

Williams, Tennessee | Memory | 3 bookmarks

"A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."

Allen, Woody | Relationships | 3 bookmarks