“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
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Rainer Maria Rilke176
Austrian poet and writer 1875–1926Related quotes
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Section 5 : Love and Marriage
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.
“Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.”
David Levithan book Every You, Every Me
Source: Every You, Every Me
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned.”
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
"Birthmark" in Paris Review (Spring 2003)
Context: They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love and they worked together to fill these rooms with high-end, consumer-grade equipment. It was a tight situation. The next sudden move would have to be through the wall.
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Entre personnes sans cesse en présence, la haine et l'amour vont toujours croissant: on trouve à tout moment des raisons pour s'aimer ou se haïr mieux.
Source: The Vicar of Tours (1832), Ch. I.
