
“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
Source: Lust for Life
“Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.”
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“By far the worst pain
Is not to understand
Why without love or hate
My heart's full of pain.”
C'est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon cœur a tant de peine!
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 13, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 71
Quoted in Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912), p. 152
From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.”
The British Enchanters (1705), Act III, scene iii.
“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
“6360. Without Pains,
No Gains.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)