Quotes About Commitment

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!

If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

To love is to act.

Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. Les Miserables, page 674

When one does wrong, one must do it thoroughly.

L'amour n'a point de moyen terme; ou il perd, ou il sauve.

He now clearly perceived the truth which was henceforth to be the centre of his life, namely, that while she was there, while he had her near him, he would need nothing except for her sake and fear nothing except on her account. He was not even conscious of feeling extremely cold, having taken off his coat to cover her.

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

He plainly perceived this truth, the basis of his life henceforth, that so long as she should be alive, so long as he should have her with him, he should need nothing except for her, and fear nothing save on her account.

Ladies, a second piece of advice--do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.

to be hated! to love with all the fury of one's soul; to feel that one would give for the least of her smiles, one's blood, one's vitals, one's fame, one's salvation, one's immortality and eternity

he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.

after philosophy, action is required;

He resolved to leave the convent.

Une idée fixe aboutit à la folie ou à l'héroïsme.

Let your rain be your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household.

Loving is half of believing.

Como se vê, tal como acontece com os recém-chegados a uma religião, a sua conversão embriagava-o, precipitava-se na adesão e ia demasiado longe.

Work is the law; whoever spurns it as tiresome will have it as punishment

Si l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si même Ils ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor Sylla ; S'il en demeure dix, je serai le dixième ; Et s'il n'en reste qu'un, je serai celui-là ! (If we're just a thousand, then, here I am! Even if They're just a hundred, still I face Sylla; If ten still stand, I'll be the tenth; And if there is only one left, I'll be this one!)

She was wiser than she'd been before. Now she knew how fragile life and love were. Maybe she would love him for only this day, or maybe for only the next week, or maybe until she was an old, old woman. Maybe he would be the love of her life... or her love for the duration of this war... or maybe he would only be her first love. All she really knew was that in this terrible, frightening world, she had stumbled into something unexpected. And she would not let it go again.

But she wasn't an I. She was a we. Her two beautiful children were counting on her, even if Loreda didn't know it yet.