„I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.“

„Now I want you to tell me just one thing more. Why do you hate the South?“

—  William Faulkner, kniha Absalom, Absalom!

"I dont hate it," Quentin said, quickly, at once, immediately; "I dont hate it," he said. I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark: I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

last lines (Chapter 9)
Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

„The only stipulations I shall contend for are, that in all things you shall do as you please. I will do the same; and that no ceremony may be used or any restraint be imposed on any one.“

—  George Washington first President of the United States 1732 - 1799

Letter to David Humphreys, inviting him to an indefinite stay at Mt. Vernon (10 October 1787), as published in Life and Times of David Humphreys (1917) by Frank Landon Humphreys, Vol. I, p. 426
1780s

„There are many things that I want to tell you -- well, really, only one -- but that one is as large as the ocean -- as the ocean is deep and infinite, so is my love for you and it will be for all my life!“

—  Giacomo Puccini Italian composer 1858 - 1924

Ho tante cose che ti voglio dire, o una sola, ma grande come il mare, come il mare profonda ed infinita...Sei il mio amore e tutta la mia vita!
Mimi
Act IV Sono andante?
La bohème (1896)

„My dearest life, I know you are not mine forever; but do love me even if it’s for this moment. After that I shall vanish into the forest where you cast me, I won’t ask anyone for anything again. Give me something that can last me till I die.“

—  Rabindranath Tagore, kniha Chokher Bali

Zdroj: Chokher Bali

„I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.“

—  Mathias Malzieu, kniha La Mécanique du cœur

Zdroj: La Mécanique du cœur

„I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.“

—  Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

„I said, goodbye to you; goodbye to everything that I knew. You were the one I loved; the one thing I that I tried to hold on to.“

—  Michelle Branch American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1983

"Goodbye to You"
2000s, The Spirit Room (2001)
Kontext: Of all the things I've believed in? I just want to get it over with. Tears form behind my eyes, but I do not cry. Counting the days that pass me by. I've been searching deep down in my soul. Words that I'm hearing? Are starting to get old. It feels like I'm starting, all over again. The last three years were just pretend. And I said, goodbye to you; goodbye to everything that I knew. You were the one I loved; the one thing I that I tried to hold on to.

„One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.“

—  Richard Branson English business magnate, investor and philanthropist 1950

From Richard Branson's blog ‘Learning from mistakes’ on the Virgin Website

„You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.“

—  Nancy Mitford British writer 1904 - 1973

Zdroj: Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels

„My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now.“

—  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Zdroj: Lady Windermere's Fan

„Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.“

—  Norman Mailer, kniha An American Dream

Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 6
An American Dream (1965)

„I want to kiss you one more time before I die.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha Clockwork Princess

Zdroj: Clockwork Princess

„It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha Clockwork Angel

Zdroj: Clockwork Angel

„Sometimes the things you want are hard to take
Sometimes the ones you love are risks that you don't make.“

—  Anastacia American singer-songwriter 1968

Rearview
Anastacia (2004)

„I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.“

—  Jennifer Weiner, kniha Good in Bed

Zdroj: Good in Bed

„I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha City of Glass

Jace to Clary, pg. 331
Varianta: There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
Zdroj: The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)

„Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!“

—  Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967

„If there is one thing that I have learnt for all I've been through – it's that you only regret the things you didn't do.“

—  Cameron Duncan New Zealand filmmaker 1986 - 2003

Strike Zone

„I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.“

—  Leo Tolstoy, kniha Anna Karenina

Zdroj: Anna Karenina