“You know when you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
Even if we've had our hearts broken a few times and think becoming a cynic is easy, fairy tales depicted in movies never fail to melt our hearts. The most heartfelt love stories are those that transcend life and death. They not only foretell happiness or togetherness, but they also prevail over life's faults and missteps and arouse feelings that go beyond socially acceptable crazy.
Love is precious, and the best love stories offer the kind of feeling we all wish to have in our lives. I know you've read tales about Romeo and Juliet, but there are even more heartbreaking stories that would make you cry. Check out these 5 great stories which would warm your heart.
“If it were up to me, I'd move the mountains for you.” If you've ever been in love, you've probably learned calming lines from your mate, and you've probably told your loved ones about it. Dashrath Manjhi, also known as the "Mountain Man," really did it. For his passion, he shattered a mountain.
Dashrath Manjhi, a destitute man from Gehlour, a small Indian village, lost his wife after he was unable to carry her to the hospital after she fell off a cliff. Dashrath spent 22 years smashing stones in the mountains to pave a 400-foot-long, 30-foot-wide road that linked the village to the nearby capital, despite being labelled a "psychopath."
His only motivation was to offer emergency care to the residents of his village so that no one else would suffer the loss of a loved one as he had.
The Taj Mahal, built in 1632 by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz, is widely regarded as the epitome of marriage. Faizul Hasan Quadri, 77, of India, has also pledged to create a "monument of devotion" for his wife Tajammuli Begum in the Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh. Faizul married Begum when she was just 14 years old, and he taught her to read and write in Urdu. The couple had no children, and his wife was constantly concerned that she would be ignored after her death. Quadri promised her a mausoleum and that she will be honoured for all time.
“We have been together for over 58 years, and passion develops with time. “She is still in my mind now that she is gone,” he adds. Tajammuli died of cancer in 2011.
Sarinya Kamsook and Chadil Deffy had planned to marry shortly after Deffy finished his studies. But his world was turned upside down when he learnt of Sarinya's death in an accident, long before the two had set a date to marry. Death, on the other hand, did not defeat his passion. Deffy married his deceased sister in a combined funeral and wedding ceremony in Thailand's Surin province, where he put a ring on Sarinya's wrist, his 10-year girlfriend, and kissed her.
People sometimes send letters to their loved ones. The tale of two people who met through letters and married the first time they saw each other is, though, very heartwarming. That's how David Hurd and Avril Cato got together. In 1907, David Hurd moved to New York City and began writing letters to Avril Cato, an anonymous woman from the Caribbean whom he had never met in person. They began exchanging letters and grew close. Avril and David met for the first time on their wedding day in August 1914 in Jamaica, a year after David proposed to her. Via their excellent use of the art of letter, these two faithful pen-pals formed a profound and heartfelt devotion to becoming one.
The Nazis compelled Gerda Weissmann, a Polish-born American writer, and 4000 other Jewish women to march for months. During the fighting, she lost 65 family members, and only 120 of the women in the march survived, having been stranded in a factory for days without food. Kurt Klein, a Lieutenant in the United States Army reserve, discovered her one day shy of her 21st birthday, wearing rags and having not bathed in three years. In September 1945, the pair got engaged and married soon after.
