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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
James Joyce1882–1941A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Chapter V (3 of 3)In context
- Family
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
James Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), A Painful CaseIn context
- Friendship
- Sex
I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
James Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), ArabyIn context
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97
- Power
You are what you love. Not what loves you.
Charlie Kaufmanborn 1958“Donald Kaufman” (Nicolas Cage) in Adaptation (2001 film)
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then it was too late.
MKMax Kaufman
- Marriage
I learned I couldn’t shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.
Diane Keaton1946–2025Then Again (2011), Afterword to the 2012 edition
Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1820), “Lamia”, Pt. II, l. 1
You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
John Keats1795–1821To Fanny Brawne (March 1820)
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.
John Keats1795–1821La Belle Dame sans Merci (1820)In context
Then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
John Keats1795–1821When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be (1818)In context
- Fame
Love like Ruth’s, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.
Helen Keller1880–1968The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 21
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Speech on the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Indianapolis (4 April 1968)
- America
- Race
You can’t bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It’s that old hippie nonsense but it’s still the best stuff there is.
KKKen Kesey1935–2001Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
- War & Peace
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse⁠—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness⁠—
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Omar Khayyam1048–1131The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)In context
- Happiness
- Poetry