LOVE:

LOVE:
No. I  yearn upward, touch you close,
Then stand away. I kiss your cheek,
Catch your soul's warmth, - I pluck the rose.
Then the good minute goes.
-Robert Browning: Two in the Campagna
Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.
And now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I 
Am quite myself again.
-A.E.Housman: A Shropshire Lad
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
-La Bryere
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anaesthesis - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
-H.L.Menken
Love is nothing save an insatiate thirst to enjoy a greedily desired object. 
-Montaigne