I cannot exist without you.
- Source
- Letter to Fanny Brawne, 1819
- Written
- 1819
About this quotation
Keats wrote this in a private love letter to Fanny Brawne around the time they became engaged. The sentence continues: “I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again — my Life seems to stop there.” Keats died in 1821, and the engagement never led to marriage.