With the Valentine’s Day fast approaching, our thoughts inevitably turn to our loved ones. In our humble opinion, love notes, timeless and unique, will leave a lasting impression and make a profound impact on the object of your desire. We would like to share some inspirational quotes and poems with those who are romantics at heart, wishing to pour out their feelings in a love note.
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
“’Oh, Elinor, you have made me hate myself forever. How barbarous have I been to you! — you, who have been my only comfort, who have born with me in all my misery, who have seemed to be suffering only for me!’”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonAnna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand.”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonGreat Expectations, Charles Dickens
“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonClarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Samuel Richardson
“By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what’s still worse, love any woman in the world but her.”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonThe beautiful and the damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
“She was dazzling– alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonFar From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
“Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonVanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonMadame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
“Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightning — a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings.”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonThe Age Of Innocence, Edith Wharton
“I couldn’t have spoken like this yesterday, because when we’ve been apart, and I’m looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you’re so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonWuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff’s miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonJane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy — my better self – my good angel — I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you — and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
Read it Free Here Buy it on AmazonIn Memoriam, Alfred Tennyson
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I feel it, when I sorrow most;
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
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Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”
A Red, Red Rose, Robert Burns
O my Luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O my Luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
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And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, William Blake
"Love seeketh not itself to please,Read it Free Here Buy it on Amazon
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
Life in a love, Robert Browning
Escape me?
Never—
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth,
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear—
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed—
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
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To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And baffled, get up to begin again,—
So the chase takes up one's life, that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound,
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope drops to ground
Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark,
I shape me—
Ever
Removed!
She Walks in Beauty, George Gordon Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.
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So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Stella
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