We are surrounded by deeply conclusive notions regarding long-distance relationships. Letter after letter has been written in despair, induced by the conflicts that such relationships can bring about. However, if you are currently in one or considering entering into one, I urge you to view it as a unique experience. No matter how challenging it may appear, if you are driven by what some may call love, and others may call faith, trust me, you will be rewarded. The key is to maintain an open mind, and above all, an open heart.
Literature possesses the ability to delve into depths that often elude us in our everyday chaos. Writers create narratives that venture into the realm of the unreal. Yet, just as ordinary existence is possible, the extraordinary also exists, and it exists magnificently. I am extremely excited to present you with three categories of quotes: one by Shakespeare, the embodiment of heartfelt emotions; Charles Dickens, the perfect blend of poetry and pragmatism; excerpts from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, a tale of longing and seizing eternal moments within transience and love notes from John Keats, the legendary poet of romanticism era,
This blog aims to assist you in embarking on your long-distance journey with a multitude of worldviews through the lens of love.
We hope to liberate you from the confines of limited anxiety, empowering you to embrace this experience in its purest form.
Quotes by William Shakespeare:
1) “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” – Romeo and Juliet
2) “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” – Romeo and Juliet
3) “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.” – Sonnet 116
4) “The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.” – The Tempest
5) “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” – Sonnet 116
6) “When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
7) “Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.” – Hamlet
8) “I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.” – Henry VI, Part 3
9) “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” – Sonnet 116 (not by Shakespeare, but often attributed to him)
Quotes by Charles Dickens:
- “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
- “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
- “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- “Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.” – Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- “I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- “The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- “The pain of separation cannot be avoided, but the joy of reunion is sure to come.” – Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
- “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
- “The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” – Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
- “It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient, too.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Excerpts from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
- “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
- “I cannot express it, but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.”
- 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.”
Quotes by John Keats:
- “Love is my religion – I could die for it.”
- “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.”
- “I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
- “I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
- “I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
- “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion – I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.”
- “You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.” “I love you more than my own skin.”
- “I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again.”
- “I have a habitual feeling of my real life having passed, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.”
“Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix forever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle.”
May the words touch the depths of your heart and bring you solace. Release your worries and embrace the love within you. Whenever you feel overwhelmed, remember that these words will be here, waiting for you.