“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
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George Eliot 300
English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880Related quotes
[2005, The Transfiguration of Man, World Wisdom, 109, 978-0-94153219-8]
Spiritual path, Wisdom
“I and motherland are one. My name is Million, because for millions do I love and suffer agonies.”
Ja i ojczyzna to jedno. Nazywam sie Milion, bo za miliony kocham i cierpię katuszę.
Part three, scene one.
Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/mic_fore.htm
Edward Young, The Brothers (1753), Act V, scene i.
Misattributed
Source: Confessions (c. 397), XII, 14
“The wind, the birds,
do not sound poorer but clearer,
recalling our agony, and the way we danced.”
A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)
Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 100
Context: When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world. Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects … Love is the answer, we sing. … our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic — albeit desperate — conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, RACISM AND CIVIL RIGHTS
“Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.”
Source: My Name is Red