
„Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.“
— Montesquieu French social commentator and political thinker 1689 - 1755
No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
4 August
Without Dogma (1891)
Kontextus: If it be a great misfortune to love another man's wife, be she ever so commonplace, it is an infinitely greater misfortune to love a virtuous woman. There is something in my relations to Aniela of which I never heard or read; there is no getting out of it, no end. A solution, whether it be a calamity or the fulfilment of desire, is something, but this is only an enchanted circle. If she remain immovable and I do not cease loving her, it will be an everlasting torment, and nothing else. And I have the despairing conviction that neither of us will give way.
— Montesquieu French social commentator and political thinker 1689 - 1755
No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
— Albert Camus, könyv Summer
Summer (1954), Return to Tipasa
Kontextus: There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
— Margaret Mitchell, Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Forrás: Gone with the Wind
— Edith Wharton, könyv The House of Mirth
Forrás: The House of Mirth
— Sri Chinmoy Indian writer and guru 1931 - 2007
Forrás: Service-Boat And Love-Boatman (1974), p. 2, Part 1
Kontextus: Nothing can be greater than love. God is great only because He has infinite Love. If we want to define God, we can define Him in millions of ways, but I wish to say that no definition of God can be as adequate as the definition of God as all Love. When we say "God", if fear comes into our mind, then we are millions and billions of miles away from Him. When we repeat the name of God, if love comes to the fore, then our prayer, our concentration, our meditation, our contemplation are genuine.
— Henri Barbusse French novelist 1873 - 1935
The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVI
Kontextus: Turn where you will, everywhere, the man and the woman ever confronting each other, the man who loves a hundred times, the woman who has the power to love so much and to forget so much. I went on my way again. I came and went in the midst of the naked truth. I am not a man of peculiar and exceptional traits. I recognise myself in everybody. I have the same desires, the same longings as the ordinary human being. Like everybody else I am a copy of the truth spelled out in the Room, which is, "I am alone and I want what I have not and what I shall never have." It is by this need that people live, and by this need that people die.
— Franz Kafka author 1883 - 1924
Forrás: Diaries of Franz Kafka
— Karl Marx, könyv Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Forrás: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
— Anaïs Nin writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903 - 1977
June 18, 1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
— Jane Austen, könyv Northanger Abbey
Forrás: Northanger Abbey
— Anne Bradstreet Anglo-American poet 1612 - 1672
To my Dear and Loving Husband.
— Alexander Pope eighteenth century English poet 1688 - 1744
— David Gemmell, könyv The King Beyond the Gate
Forrás: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 22
— Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
— Antoine François Prévost French novelist 1697 - 1763
Rien n'est plus capable d'inspirer du courage à une femme que l'intrépidité d'un homme qu'elle aime.
Part 2, p. 227; translation p. 132.
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)
— Henryk Sienkiewicz, könyv Quo vadis
Quo Vadis (1895)
— John Steinbeck, könyv East of Eden
Változat: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Forrás: East of Eden