Love. “Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart; ’tis woman’s whole existence.”—Byron, Don Juan, i. 194 (1819).
Love.
’Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
Thomas Moore, in his Irish Melodies, expresses an opposite opinion:
Better far to be
In endless darkness lying
Than be in light and see
That light forever flying.