NOTES FROM FAMOUS LOVE LETTERS<

Here are a few excerpts of famous love-letters from some well-known figures, and others well-loved although not so well-known !!!

Pssst.....you may want to modify and include some of them in your letters to sweet-hearts as well !!! Happy romancing....


Indeed I feel as if it would be flattering an angel to compare such a being with you...Anonymous


My spirit is heavy, my heart is fettered and I am terrified by my fantasies. You love me less but you will get over the loss. One day you will love me no longer; atleast tell me; then I shall know how I have come to deserve this misfortune. Farewell my wife, the torment, joy, hope and missing spirit of my life; whom I love, whom I fear, who fills me with tender feelings which draw me close to Nature, and with violent impulses as tumultuous as thunder. The day when you say "I love you less" will mark the end of my love and the last day of my life. If my heart were base enough to love without being loved in return I would tear it to pieces. Josephine! Josephine! Remember what I have said to you. Nature has endowed me with a virile and decisive character. It has built yours out of lace and gossamer. My heart, obsessed with you is full of fears which prostrate me with misery. - NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE.


How I long to give myself up in ecstasy to your sweet breath and to those kisses from your lips which fill me with delight. I need your love as a touchstone of my existence. It is the sun which breathes life into me. My last waking thoughts and all my dreams are of you. Think of me, sometimes, when the Alps and ocean divide us - but they never will, unless you wish it. Do you imagine it is impossible for my affection, or my tenderness, to be divided without being diminished ? You deceive yourself. This very day I shall be able to say with absolute confidence that Constaner is the virtuous, honorable, prudent and loyal sweetheart of her honest and devoted - MOZART.


PRINCE DE JOINVILLE to RACHEL FELIX: When, after seeing her act one evening, the Prince de Joinville sent Rachel his card with the famous words:
"....Where ? .....When ? .....How much ?"
she countered:
"....Your place....Tonight....Free" !!!!


MARCEL PROUST to MADAME STRAUSS:
Madame, I love mysterious women, since you are one.....


ANONYMOUS


I do not at all mind having what is too good for me..!!!


When two souls, which have sought each other for however long in the throng, have finally found each other, when they have seen that they are matched,are in sympathy, and compatible, in a word, that they are alike, there is then established for ever between them a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are, a union which begins on earth and continues for ever in heaven.


A glance, a smile, a kiss from you ...are my greatest joys.


I would never see anything but Pleasure in your eyes, Love on your lips and Happiness in your steps. I could never do without you. If you hated me and were covered with sores like a leper - if you ran away with another and starved me and beat me - I still would want you, I know. I know with my merciless intellect that you will not come home, but there are realms outside intelligence, outside logic.


Write to me once a week, so that your letter arrives on Sunday - for I cannot endure your daily letters. My heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you.


Methinks I could write a volume to you, but all the language on earth would fail in saying how much and with what disinterested passion I love you.


It is only natural that a woman who is desirable and nothing more, the mere object of lust, should exasperate her lovers, set them one against the other. But when like a work of art, a woman reveals the utmost refinement of charm, the most subtle grace, the most divine beauty, the most voluptuous intelligence, a common admiration for her is bound to unite, to establish a brotherhood.


You can't but know that your frowns make my life unsupportable.


I found you, as I thought, amiable, tender, and yet acute and gifted with no ordinary mind - one whom I could look upon with pride as the partner of my life, who could sympathise with all my projects and feelings, console me in the moments of depression, share my hour of triumph and work with me for our honour and happiness. Was this an inducement for me to sacrifice my sweet liberty,and that indefinite future which is one of the charms of existence ? Far different are the qualities which I require in the sweet participator of my existence. My nature demands that my life shall be perpetual love.


Shall we not meet in a state, some yet unknown state, of being where the lavish hand of plenty shall minister to the highest wish of Benevolence, and where the chill north wind of Prudence shall never blow over the flowery fields of enjoyment ? If we do not, Man was made in vain ! What unprovoked Demon, malignant as Hell,stole upon the confidence of unmistrusting, busy Fate, and dashed your cup of life with undeserved sorrow?


Ah ! Much less cruel would you have been, if you had driven a dagger into my heart, instead of the fateful weapon, which kills me slowly !


What heart, what God, could have experienced you and resisted ?


I don't want to live.....I want to love first, and live incidentally.


It seems to me that what I feel is not of earth. I cannot yet comprehend this cloudless heaven.


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Indeed I feel as if it would be flattering an angel to compare such a being with you.


I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.


I wake filled with thoughts of you. A thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.


Through snow and frost, a flower gleams. As my love does through ice and the evil weather of life. I believe that I love you more than yesterday. But that belief grows with every single day.


What a heavenly morning ! All the bells are ringing, the sky is so golden and blue, and clear.....and before me lies your letter.


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