If I should meet thee after long years, how should I greet thee? With silence and tears.

Lord Byron · The closing lines of "When We Two Parted," about a parting whose wound has not healed, written about an affair he kept secret all his life.

She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies.

Lord Byron · The opening of "She Walks in Beauty," written in 1814 after he saw his cousin's wife, Mrs. Wilmot, in a black mourning dress with spangles, at a party.

More Love Quotes

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham · Philip Carey to Norah, who has just said she always knew he loved her less than she loved him.

To get rid of an enemy, one must love him.

Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.