14 Beautiful Love Letter Excerpts From Famous Faces Throughout History

"I can't say how every time I ever put my arms around you I felt that I was home. Nor too many things. But we were always cheerful and jokers together."

The author and actress traded letters for nearly three decades without ever getting their timing right for an actual romantic relationship.

"Since I left you, I have been constantly depressed. My happiness is to be near you. Incessantly I live over in my memory your caresses, your tears, your affectionate solicitude. The charms of the incomparable Joséphine kindle continually a burning and a glowing flame in my heart."

Despite his affectionate words, the pair eventually split up when Napoleon sought a new wife to give him a male heir.

"My blind eyes are desperately waiting for the sight of you. You don’t realise of course, E.B., how fascinatingly beautiful you have always been, and how strangely you have acquired an added and special and dangerous loveliness."

It clearly wasn't just the headline writers who had a way with words throughout this iconic couple's bumpy relationship.

"I beg to know expressly your intention touching the love between us. Necessity compels me to obtain this answer, having been more than a year wounded by the dart of love, and not yet sure whether I shall fail or find a place in your affection."

The king, who is notorious for walking down the aisle six times in his attempts to have a male heir, wrote this particularly moving note to his second wife while still married to his first.

"We shall probably soon meet, even today I cannot communicate my remarks to you, which during these days I made about my life — were our hearts close together, I should probably not make any such remarks. My bosom is full, to tell you much — there are moments when I find that speech is nothing at all. Brighten up — remain my true and only treasure, my all, as I to you. The rest the gods must send, what must be for us and shall."

Unfortunately, the composer's "beloved" remains a mystery to this day.

"Diego, my love,

"Remember that once you finish the fresco we will be together forever once and for all, without arguments or anything, only to love one another.

"Behave yourself and do everything that Emmy Lou tells you.

"I adore you more than ever. Your girl, Frida

"(Write me)"

Frida sent this sweet letter to Diego while he was away painting a mural at City College in San Diego.

"My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you — I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again — my Life seems to stop there — I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving — I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you."

The English poet was particularly inspired to write after falling for Fanny at first sight, but they sadly never married due to her mother's disapproval.

"Should I draw you the picture of my Heart, it would be what I hope you would Love; tho it contained nothing new; the early possession you obtained there; and the absolute power you have ever maintained over it; leaves not the smallest space unoccupied.

"I look back to the early days of our acquaintance; and Friendship, as to the days of Love and Innocence; and with an indescribable pleasure I have seen near a score of years roll over our Heads, with an affection heightened and improved by time — nor have the dreary years of absence in the smallest degree effaced from my mind the Image of the dear untitled man to whom I gave my Heart."

Abigail sent this to her "dearest friend" before heading across the ocean for a trip to Holland during John's presidency.

"We get old and get used to each other. We think alike. We read each other’s minds. We know what the other one wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted.

"But once in a while, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met. You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. You’re the object of my desire, the #1 earthly reason for my existence. I love you very much."

These kind words were shared on June's birthday in 1994, clearly proving the classic country pair's love was the real deal.

"I am a prisoner here in the name of the King; they can take my life, but not the love that I feel for you. Yes, my adorable mistress, to-night I shall see you, and if I had to put my head on the block to do it.

"No, nothing has the power to part me from you; our love is based upon virtue, and will last as long as our lives. Adieu, there is nothing that I will not brave for your sake; you deserve much more than that. Adieu, my dear heart!"

The Candide author wrote this note for Olympe, who unfortunately doesn't seem to have a portrait available, from behind the prison walls that her mother was able to cast him into out of disapproval. He eventually escaped.

"You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me — my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything."

It seems writing 44 sonnets for her husband wasn't enough for Elizabeth, who also shared her affection in this moving letter.

"Off you go again alone and it's with a very heavy heart I part from you. No more kisses and tender caresses for ever so long — I want to bury myself in you, hold you tight in my arms, make you feel the intense love of mine.

"You are my very life Sweetheart, and every separation gives such endless heartache… Goodbye my Angel, Husband of my heart I envy my flowers that will accompany you. I press you tightly to my breast, kiss every sweet place with tender love…"

There are several letters from the last empress of Russia, gushing with affection for her royal husband before their family suffered from the revolution.

"Livy Darling, I am grateful — grateful-er than ever before — that you were born, & that your love is mine & our two lives woven & welded together!"

The humorous author kept his sentiments short, but still so sweet, in this note to his wife in 1888.

"My darling Clemmie,

"In your letter from Madras you wrote some words very dear to me, about my having enriched your life. I cannot tell you what pleasure this gave me, because I always feel so overwhelmingly in your debt, if there can be accounts in love…. What it has been to me to live all these years in your heart and companionship no phrases can convey."

We don't usually think of the legendary U.K. prime minister as the romantic type, but it's really no surprise he had the same mastery when it came to words of love as he did with his stately speeches.

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