Quotes About Devotion

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. ... When I say 'I will be true to you' I must mean it in spite of the formalities, instead of the formalities.

Their throats were bare for God.

I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the bridge or the pulley because you are the dream.

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Yes I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the bridge or the pulley because you are the dream.

We were not lovers, we were love.

They never say, I love you with all my kidneys. I love you with my liver. They never say, my gall bladder is yours and yours alone. No one says, she broke my appendix.

He would love her if she were a wolf that tore out his heart. And he wondered what that said about love.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it."' That's from the Song of Solomon. We sing what we know.

I broke his Bible box into bits and lit a fire and laid his body beside it and felt where the bones were broken in his back and chest and legs and licked the blood from his mouth and tried to give him my breath and I would have given him one of my legs and one of my arms and one of my kidneys and half of my liver and four pints of my blood and all easy for I had already given him my heart.

I like passion, I like to be among the desperate.

The love we seek overrules human nature. It has a wildness in it and a glory that we want more than life itself. Love never counts the cost, to itself or others, and nothing is as cruel as love. There is no love that does not pierce the hands and feet.

To do something large and to do it well demands such observances, personal and peculiar, laughable as they often are, because they stave off that dinginess of soul that says that everything is small and grubby and nothing is really worth the effort.

I've flown about a bit and picked up a few things and I'll give one of them to you for nothing. You don't run out on the woman you love.

I didn't only want Louise's flesh, I wanted her bones, her blood, her tissues, the sinews that bound her together. I would have held her to me though time had stripped away the tones and textures of her skin. I could have held her for a thousand years until the skeleton itself rubbed away to dust. What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?

I am busy with the Lord in Wigan

Passion is sweeter split strand by strand.

Be with someone you don't want to be without.

Surely a god can meet passion with passion.

Keep me in the mop bucket or the slot where the grill pan goes, but don't let me go because I love you.

Fools stay in love. I am a fool.