Love is the difficult realisation that something other than onself is real - Iris Murdoch
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision - Judith Butler, http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/12/philosopher-judith-bu…
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will - Stendhal http://j.mp/13dYfAm
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction - Antoine de Saint-Exupﾎry http://j.mp/TR8wxX
I no longer want to have anything to do with love that forgets to be grateful. Otherwise I will only go on lying to You: and I want to be done with all insincerity for ever and ever - Thomas Merton http://www.gratefulness.org/readings/dsr_merton-crack1.htm
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear - Martin Luther King, Jr. http://ow.ly/i/1V3XW
He is not a lover who does not love forever - Euripides
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved - Kurt Vonnegut http://j.mp/UiOrPk
..and here we are hurried, and here we are gone, and here is the love, it's all built upon.
Has any music ever come as close to lifting the veil as Allegri's Miserere Mei? The sound one hears at time 4:48 (ironically the same number as in a much more modern, and in its own way much sadder work of art) in the video below seems to reach as close to the elusive sublime/divine (take your pick) as one could imagine. Little wonder that legend has Mozart "stealing" this music from the Vatican, after hearing it as a boy in the Sistine Chapel and then writing it down from memory.