41 of the GREATEST and most powerful sex and love quotes in literature

The sense of an ending:

37. “I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.” —Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

38. “Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned

39. “It’s so nice/ to wake up in the morning/ all alone/ and not have to tell somebody /you love them /when you don’t love them/ any more.” —Richard Brautigan, “Love Poem”