I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he is cold, and his clothes are torn, and he is ashamed, but he is not unhappy.0
She was terrifying and disgusting to him when he recalled the terrible price of the shame they had paid.0
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life.0
I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.0
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other.0
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.0
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.0
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. – Colonel Aureliano Buendía0
The past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.0
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.0
He promised to follow her to the ends of the earth, but she was so disillusioned that she told him that she was not going to any ends of the earth, but that she was going to shut herself up in a convent.0
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.0
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again.0
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love. – The Elder Zosima0
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. – The Elder Zosima0
Fathers and teachers, I ponder 'What is hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. – The Elder Zosima0
I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's just one's neighbors, to my mind, that one can't love, though one might love those at a distance. – Ivan Karamazov0
Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world with it, and expiate not only your own sins but the sins of others. – The Elder Zosima0
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. – Paul D0
Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love.0
Billy Pilgrim says he was on Tralfamadore for years, and that he was mated with a former Earthling movie star named Montana Wildhack.0
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. - Sydney Carton0
I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence.0