Quotes about love
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Wilhelm Reich1897–1957The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. V: The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique
Simone Weil1909–1943The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 192- Simone Weil1909–1943Last Notebook (1942) p. 84
Virgil70–19 BCEclogues (37 BC), Book X, line 69 (tr. Fairclough)And to his eye
There was but one beloved face on earth,
And that was shining on him.
Lord Byron1788–1824The Dream (1816), Stanza 2.
John of the Cross1542–1591Spiritual Canticle, Notes to the Stanzas- MMuhammad571–632Narrated in Ibn Majah, #1978, and Al-Tirmizi, #3895.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“The Threatened”, The Book of Sand [El Libro de arena] (1975)He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, First Revelation, Ch. 8
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986Conclusion, p. 541
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Heroides, I, 12
Fernando Pessoa1888–1935Poem (5 April 1935), reported in Poesias inéditas (1930-1935), p. 192- Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 720; translated by J. Lewis May in The Love Books of Ovid, 1930
