“If by misfortune I've missed the Beloved's presence, then bless me with the dust from somewhere the Beloved walked.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“When I long for you, I don't want wine, may the barrels rot and the tavern age. Even if it's the wine of heaven, throw it away! Wine has no purpose if the Beloved is not there.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“Beloved, I think of you always! Your sweet-smelling curls wake up my lonesome soul.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“Look to my Beloved's curls and gaze, if you want to know where my heart is kept.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“The beauty of your face, my Beloved, strikes my heart like a piercing arrow.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“The joy of the Beloved is insane, we are madmen trapped in the curls of her hair.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“He who throws himself at the Beloved's feet is like a workhorse and will be rewarded with boundless pastures and eternal rest.”— Hafiz of Persia, peacefulrivers.homestead.com
“When she needed help most, she was abandoned—and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.”— Matthew Quick, amazon.com
“By night, beloved, tie your heart to mine and let them both in dreams defeat the darkness.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, thoughtcatalog.com
“I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”— Alyson Noël, amazon.com
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having…”— Anne Lamott, thoughtcatalog.com