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Quotes About Love

I mean that every word ought to carry the meaning that God has given to life (even though it may never refer to God). It ought to carry joy, hope, forgiveness, love, reconciliation, light, and peace in the order of truth. It contributes to the elucidation of the meaning of life.
~ Jacques Ellul
I have never seen a man in love," he mused, "who wasn't in trouble.
~ Unknown
A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.
~ Jacques Lacan
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? — Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge Vol. Book XX . (W. W. Norton & Company November 17, 1999) Originally published 1975.
~ Jacques Lacan
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
~ Jacques Lacan
Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
~ Jacques Lacan
There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you
~ Jacques Lacan
I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you.
~ Jacques Lacan
When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex.
~ Jacques Lacan
A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.
~ Jacques Lacan
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
~ Jacques Maritain
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
~ Jacques Maritain
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~ Jacques Maritain
Je treba poveda?, že umelec slúži kráse a poézii, slúži teda absolútnu, miluje absolútno, je v zajatí absolútna lásou, ktorá si vyžaduje celú jeho bytos?, telo aj dušu. nemôže súhlasi? so žiadnym rozdelením. kúsok neba skrytý v temnom príbytku jeho ducha...
~ Jacques Maritain
dôležitejší je fakt, že ke? sa láska zmocní ?loveka - nechcem poveda? hocijaká láska, hovorím o láske k Bohu a k blížnemu, - celú subjektivitu o?is?uje, a tým o?is?uje aj prame? tvorby.
~ Jacques Maritain
o?istený prame? pramení z hlbín ?udskej substancie.. nie je však plný kalu. je to dielo.. predovšetkým pretrvávajúcej lásky.. a umenie o?istenej duše si používa všetko, aj blato, na slávu diela, ?istými rukami a bez za?úbenia v kale.
~ Jacques Maritain
You go down to the bottom of the sea, where the water isn't even blue anymore, where the sky is only a memory, and you float there, in the silence. And you stay there, and you decide, that you'll die for them. Only then do they start coming out. They come, and they greet you, and they judge the love you have for them. If it's sincere, if it's pure, they'll be with you, and take you away forever.
~ Unknown
An orange on the table Your dress on the rug And you in my bed Sweet present of the present Cool of night Warmth of my life
~ Jacques Prévert
Paris at Night Trois allumettes une à une allumées dans la nuit La première pour voir ton visage tout entier La seconde pour voir tes yeux La dernière pour voir ta bouche Et l'obscurité tout entière pour me rappeler tout cela En te serrant dans mes bras
~ Jacques Prévert
Le malheur avait mis les habits du mensonge Ils étaient d'un beau rouge couleur du sang du cœur Mais son cœur à lui était gris Penché sur la margelle il me chantait l'amour Sa voix grinçait comme la poulie Et moi dans mon costume de vérité je me taisais et je riais et je dansais au fond du puits Et sur l'eau qui riait aussi la lune brillait contre le malheur la lune se moquait de lui.
~ Jacques Prévert
Quand la mort lui parle de l'amour la vie frémit Quand la vie lui parle de la mort l'amour sourit.
~ Jacques Prévert
Tre fiammiferi di fila accesi nella notte il primo per vedere tutto il tuo viso il secondo per vedere i tuoi occhi il terzo per vedere la tua bocca e l'oscurità intera per ricordare tutto questo mentre ti stringo tra le braccia.
~ Jacques Prévert
il étouffe - le monde se couche sur lui - et l'étouffe - il est prisonnier - coincé par ses promesses … on lui demande des comptes … En face de lui … une machine à compter - une machine à écrire des lettres d'amour - une machine à souffrir - le saisit … s'accroche à lui … Pierre dis-moi la vérité
~ Jacques Prévert
La vie est une cerise La mort est un noyau L'amour un cerisier
~ Jacques Prévert