“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case… I love you.”
Source: On the Prowl
Variant: I have loved you in return, more than you will ever know.
Source: The Longest Ride
“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case… I love you.”
Source: On the Prowl
Vol. XI, p. 288
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Context: We know only fragmentarily this extraordinary thing called life; we have never looked at sorrow, except through the screen of escapes; we have never seen the beauty, the immensity of death, and we know it only through fear and sadness. There can be understanding of life, and of the significance and beauty of death, only when the mind on the instant perceives “what is”. You know, sirs, although we differentiate them, love, death, and sorrow are all the same; because, surely, love, death, and sorrow are the unknowable. The moment you know love, you have ceased to love. Love is beyond time; it has no beginning and no end, whereas knowledge has; and when you say, “I know what love is”, you don’t. You know only a sensation, a stimulus. You know the reaction to love, but that reaction is not love. In the same way, you don’t know what death is. You know only the reactions to death, and you will discover the full depth and significance of death only when the reactions have ceased.
“You foolish man. Of course there's love. Don't you know? I love you.”
Source: Kiss an Angel
You Love the Thunder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Love_the_Thunder (1977)
“I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”