Paulo Coelho: Quotes about love (page 2)
Paulo Coelho is Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on love.Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
Source: Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: Eleven Minutes
Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
Context: The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 258.
“Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 157.
Context: Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. … It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.”
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 164.
Context: Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or — such is the pleasure they experience — they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: The Zahir
Variant: When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
Source: Brida
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.