Quotes About Devotion

Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in one's mind, only one desire in the heart, and only one name on the lips--a name which comes up continually, rising, like the water in a spring, from the depths of the soul to the lips, a name which one repeats over and over again, which one whispers ceaselessly, everywhere, like a prayer.

This was the first living creature I had ever loved passionately, because he returned my affection. My love for the animal was, no doubt, exaggerated and ridiculous.I has a vague idea that in some way we were brothers, both lost in life, both lonely and defenseless. He never left me,slept at foot of my bed, was fed in the dining-room in spite of my parents' protests and he came with me on my solitary walks.

The dead dog had come more than a hundred miles to find its master. [Mademoiselle Cocotte]

What you love too violently finishes by killing you.

One can love a friend as much as a wife. Passion has its own laws.

L'autre, très chétive, avait une tête jolie et maladive sur une poitrine de phtisique rongée par cette foi dévorante qui fait les martyrs et les illuminés.

L'autre, très chétive, avait une tête jolie et maladive sur une poitrine de physique rongée par cette foi dévorante qui fait les martyrs et les illuminés.

Bisognerebbe amare, amare follemente, senza vedere ciò che si ama. Perché vedere è comprendere, e comprendere è disprezzare.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

Yo quiero orar!

Os homens são os únicos animais que se devotam diariamente a tornar os outros infelizes. É uma arte como outra qualquer. Seus virtuoses são chamados de altruístas

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

Leider kann ich nicht in Worte fassen, wie sehr ich dieses Spiel liebe. Ich könnt ein 1000-seitiges Buch schreiben und es wäre dennoch nicht genug.

Habia mas de Cristo en esta devota mujer de lo que se pensaria de cualquier ser humano, y ante semejante amor y lealtad no podia hacer nada

You gotta dance with the one that brung you!

I love you better than all in the world besides, dear little Snow-white, and you must come with me to my father's castle and be my wife.

Behind every vocation there is a fetish.

If there's no sacrifice, there's no love.

we saw that what makes love, defined as desire, unbearable is the constant fear—that must accompany love—of losing its object.

An "idealist" was a man who lived for his idea—hence he could not be a businessman—and who was prepared to sacrifice for his idea everything and, especially, everybody.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

When a man wanted to wake to the same woman's face every morning, to spend a lot of nights holding her close, he might as well buy the ring.

Make haste, Beloved, be thou like an hart On mountains spicy sweet; And I, on those High Places where thou art, Will follow on hinds' feet; As close behind the hart, there leaps the roe, So where thou goest, I will surely go. That, as perhaps you know, is the last verse of the Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. But for Grace and Glory it was the beginning of a new song altogether.