Source: Atonement
“On film you put all your energies into a single glance. ”
“There never has been a time when I did not fall in love with one or two in a single day.”
Ni bu amser na charwn…
Yn y dydd ai un ai dwy.
"Merched Llanbadarn" (The Girls of Llanbadarn), line 13; translation from Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (ed. and trans.) A Celtic Miscellany (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1951] 1975) p. 209.
“Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul
Vicarious tears or a single glance.”
"You Thought I Was That Type"
Context: Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul
Vicarious tears or a single glance.
And I swear to you by the garden of the angels,
I swear by the miracle-working icon,
And by the fire and smoke of our nights:
I will never come back to you.
Narada Bhakti Sutras (2001)
Context: A million words cannot express what a glance can convey, and a million glances cannot express what a moment of silence can. A moment of silence conveys so much more than any other expression. Still, love is beyond silence too. You can describe silence to some extent, but that which is beyond silence cannot be expressed. You give, you hug... but still something remains unexpressed.
“The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 269
What is Prayer?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
