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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake1757–1827Annotations to Swedenborg (1788)
O rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
William Blake1757–1827The Sick Rose (1794)In context
- Life & Death
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Amy Bloomborn 1953
- Marriage
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloomborn 1953
- Marriage
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “The Enemy—the Extraordinary”, p. 147
- Enemies
- God
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)
- Time
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“Baruch Spinoza”, as translated in Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Marrano of Reason (1989) by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.
FBFrancis William Bourdillon1852–1921
- Marriage
The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
FBFrancis William Bourdillon1852–1921“Light” (popularly known as “The Night has a Thousand Eyes”), published in The Spectator (October 1873).
In that film Love Story, there’s a line, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you’re sorry every day for some little thing or other.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012The Paris Review interview (2010)
- Movies
I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you⁠—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XXIIIIn context
I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;⁠—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal,⁠—as we are!
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XXIIIIn context
Reader, I married him.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XXXVIIIIn context
- Marriage
Not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context