Before Romeo and Juliet came along.......

I want to have a love like this. But without the deceit, cheating, scheming, fighting, killing etc.

Tristan: [to Isolde] I live in torture thinking of these moments. Every look he gives you I get sicker and sicker. There's a burning in me, I feel on fire and a guilt I can't comidify. Does it make you happy to know that?

Isolde: Know that I love you Tristan. Wherever you go, whatever you see. I will always be with you. [his last lines]

Tristan: You were right. I don't know if life is greater than death. But love was more than either.

Isolde: Yesterday at the market, I saw a couple holding hands... and I realized we'll never do that. Never anything like it. No picnics or unguarded smiles. No rings. Just... stolen moments that leave too quickly.

Isolde: Why?

Tristan: There are other things to live for: duty, honor.

Isolde: But they are not life Tristan. They are the shells of life, and empty ones if in the end all they hold are days and days without love. Love is made by God. Ignore it and you suffer as you cannot imagine.

Tristan: Then I will no longer live without it.

Isolde: I want to know that there's more to this life, and I can't know that if they kill you. [she Kisses Tristan]

Isolde: How many have you loved before me?

Tristan: None.

Isolde: And after me?

Tristan: None.

Tristan: Isolde, we can't.

Isolde: It's like asking me to stop breathing.