Beloved Quotes - Page 31

• Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.

  Rumi

  Angel, Feet, Forever

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• What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?

  Rumi

  Pretending, Stills

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• As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Doe, May

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• You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Ocean, Garden

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• If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fate, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Taken, Loss

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.114, Canongate Books

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• Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death. ... Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Dark, Sacrifice, Boys

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• The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simply to let the two experiences compare themselves, like reflections in different mirrors. All this may precede the first look, kiss, or touch; precede ambition, pride, or envy; precede the first declarations which mark the turning point—for from here love degenerates into habit, possession, and back to loneliness.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Loneliness, Ambition, Kissing

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.39, Faber & Faber

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• We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

  Lionel Shriver

  Agony, Might, Medical Profession

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.306, Counterpoint Press

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• Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten

  Peter Carey

  Father, War, Home

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• There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

  Carson McCullers

  Country, Two, Different

  "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)

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• I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dog, Wander, Has Beens

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

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• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

  David Mitchell

  Mother, Real, Book

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House

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• Witch, do this for me, Find me a moon made of longing. Then cut it sliver thin, and having cut it, hang it high above my beloved's house, so that she may look up tonight and see it, and seeing it, sigh for me as I sigh for her, moon or no moon.

  Clive Barker

  Cutting, Moon, House

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• We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue to live. Imagine if there were a boat upon which you could put only four people, and everyone else known and beloved to you would then cease to exist. Who would you put on that boat? It would be painful, but how quickly you would decide: You and you and you and you, get in. The rest of you, goodbye.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Goodbye, Believe, People

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• It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.

  James Patterson

  Dream, Book, Character

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• Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

  Alethea Kontis

  Dream, Sleep, Rocks

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• Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wind, Desire, Ships

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• This particular type of human carries weapons slightly more lethal than your beloved pink monstrosity

  Kiersten White

  Weapons, Type, Monstrosity

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• Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Desire, Said

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The last battle”

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• Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us?

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

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• Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dog, Dragons, Knives

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

  Rick Bragg

  Men, Ice Cream, Dragons

  FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from Sep 20, 2016

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• Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, God Love, Gods Will

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• Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

  Rumi

  Moving, Wind, Lightning

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