“Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.”
Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.
The Eclogues
Eclogues (37 BC)
Variant: Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to Love!
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Bucolicks
“Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.”
Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.
The Eclogues
Eclogues (37 BC)
Variant: Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to Love!
“Love conquers all, and we must yield to Love.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Pastoral X, lines 98–99.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins
Source: Cerulean Sins
“All are to be held in the incredible embrace of the love that won’t let us go.”
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
"And God Smiles," sermon preached at All Saints Church, Pasadena, California (6 November 2005)
Context: This family has no outsiders. Everyone is an insider. When Jesus said, "I, if I am lifted up, will draw..." Did he say, "I will draw some"? "I will draw some, and tough luck for the others"? He said, "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all." All! All! All! – Black, white, yellow; rich, poor; clever, not so clever; beautiful, not so beautiful. All! All! It is radical. All! Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Bush – all! All! All are to be held in this incredible embrace. Gay, lesbian, so-called "straight;" all! All! All are to be held in the incredible embrace of the love that won’t let us go.
“Love will conquer at the last.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Source: Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886), Line 280
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) English poet and songwriter
"The Triumph of Time".
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)