Quotes About Devotion

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

If he invited her to come, then come she would, and offer him up her life.

Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

But all he could think of was what Sabina would have said about it. Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done. It was a perfectly innocent form of infidelity and one eminently suited to Franz, who would never have done his bespectacled student-mistress any harm. He nourished the cult of Sabina more as a religion than as love

Yes, it's crazy.Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

Where are all those virtues of unreason that have shaped our idea of love?

And I loved her so much I couldn't conceive of ever parting from her; true, we never talked about marriage, but at least was asbolutely serious about marrying her one day

I believe that in matters of the heart there is no such thing as compromise. Love means that you give each other everything.

Tutti noi consideriamo impensabile che l'amore della nostra vita possa essere qualcosa di leggero, qualcosa che non ha peso; riteniamo che il nostro amore sia qualcosa che doveva necessariamente essere; che senza di esso la nostra vita non sarebbe stata la nostra vita. Ci sembra che Beethoven, in persona, torvo e scapigliato, suoni al nostro grande amore il suo Es muss sein!

Too much faith is the worst ally

he realized that the path of love, which Bertlef had suggested, was closed to him; it was the path of saints, not of ordinary men.

She admired her passion, knowing that passion is by definition excessive.

That is the secret of poetry. We burn in the woman we adore, we burn in the thought we espouse, we burn in the landscape that moves us

Todos consideramos impensable que el amor de nuestra vida pueda ser algo leve, sin peso; creemos que nuestro amor es algo que tenía que ser; que sin él nuestra vida no sería nuestra vida. Nos parece que el propio huraño Beethoven, con su terrible melena, toca para nuestro gran amor su «es muss sein!».

when it's a question of wahre Liebe, true love, the beloved hardly matters.

El amor, por definición, es un regalo no merecido; ser amado sin mérito es incluso la prueba de un amor verdadero.

Suntem cu toÈ›ii încredinÈ›aÈ›i c? e de neînchipuit ca marea dragoste a vieÈ›ii noastre s? fie ceva uÈ™or, ceva lipsit de orice greutate; ne imagin?m c? însuÈ™i posacul Beethoven, cu pletele sale cumplite, cânt? al s?u "Es muss sein!" spre a cinsti marea noastr? dragoste.

Holding her tightly in his arms and feeling her body tremble, he thought he could not endure his love.

Because love means renouncing strength.

L'amour ne se manifeste pas par le désir de faire l'amour (ce désir s'applique à une innombrable multitude de femmes) mais par le désir du sommeil partagé (ce désir-là ne concerne qu'une seule femme).

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

Amar significa renunciar a la fuerza.

Everything he did, he did for Sabina, the way Sabina would have liked to see it done.