Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970), Chapter 1, on the oppressors
“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
The Earth, Act IV, l. 403
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Incorrectly attributed to Tolkien. It is a line from the Hobbit movie that did not appear in the books.
“On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.”
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), III
Context: On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love. I want suffering in order to love. I long, I thirst, this very instant, to kiss with tears the earth that I have left, and I don't want, I won't accept life on any other!
Variant: Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children.
Source: The Book Thief
“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”
As quoted in Love Until It Hurts: A Tribute to Mother Teresa and the work of the men and women of the Missionaries of Charity (1980) by Daphne Rae
1980s
