Our Love Quotes - Page 17

• We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up , out of the dreadfulness of merely living.

  John Updike

  Animal, Birth, Love One Another

  John Updike (1996). “Brazil”, Ballantine Books

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• Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

  Joni Mitchell

  Stars, Darkness, Bars

  Song: A Case of You

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• No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

  Boris Pasternak

  Strong, Compassion, Feelings

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1965). “The Poems of Dr. Zhivago”, p.134, Manchester University Press

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• Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the chimney corner. ... About the only sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free-living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love

  Hans Zinsser

  War, Adventure, Science

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• Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

  Barry Lopez

  Loneliness, Exercise, Night

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Jul 30, 2014

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• It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stronger, Grows, Ifs

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1978). “Anna Karenina”

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• Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Music, Ocean, Blessed

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• The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.

  Susan Jeffers

  Self Love, Source, Make Sense

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.

  John Stott

  Care, Creation, Creator

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• Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that our love may be complete

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Order, Together

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• True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.

  Dorothy Day

  Love Is, Men, People

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• Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Glimpse, Engagement

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• We put our love where we have put our labor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Effort, Work Effort, Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Light, Hands

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• Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Needs, Terrible

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• All our loves are contained in all our other loves.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love Is, Gold, Lines

  Iris Murdoch (1962). “An Unofficial Rose: A Novel”

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• I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

  Anita Shreve

  Night, Love Is, Thinking

  Anita Shreve (2014). “The Weight Of Water”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Perfect, Would Be

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.119, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free.
  But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace.

  Earl Nightingale

  Dream, Country, Children

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Real, Love You, Labyrinth

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• As far as your ego is concerned and your jealousy is concerned, my whole work here is to help you become so loving that the energy that becomes jealousy is transformed into love. And you know perfectly well that jealousy always follows your love. You are not jealous without love. A man who does not love is not jealous. Jealousy is almost like a shadow of love. If we can grow our love, it takes over the whole energy of jealousy and transforms it into love. It is an alchemical change.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Love You, Love Is

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• I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

  Thornton Wilder

  Marriage, Children, Growing Up

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• This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Rome, Cities, Common

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.763, Stanford University Press

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