“In love the only safety is in flight.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Napoleon I of France259
French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821Related quotes
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 12: Religion and Science.
“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.”
John Irving book The Cider House Rules
Source: The Cider House Rules
“Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.”
Zeno of Citium (-334–-263 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
As quoted in Deipnosophists by Athenaeus, xiii. 561c.
“I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.”
Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Source: Something to Tell You
“There is no safety. Only varying states of risk. And failure.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
James Montgomery (1771–1854) British editor, hymn writer, and poet
The Issues of Life and Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Honor in safety, survival under threat. Necessity is the only law.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Stone Sky
Source: The Stone Sky (2017), Chapter 9 “the desert, briefly, and you” (p. 231)