Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
~ P.g. Wodehouse
In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.
~ Haruki Murakami