Libba Bray Quotes

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Absence - that common cure of love.

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

I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay

Fro and to in my dreams to you To the haunting tune of the harp For the price I paid when you died that day I paid that day with my heart Fro and to in my dreams to you With the breaking of my heart Ne'er more again will I sing this song Ne'er more will I hear the harp.

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.

Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be?

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, my Margaret--my Margaret! no one can tell what you are to me! Dead--cold as you lie there you are the only woman I ever loved! Oh, Margaret--Margaret!

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you.

Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.

Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us