“Love… no such thing.
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
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French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854–1891Related quotes
“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“In Love no longer "thou" and "I" exist,
For Self has passed away in the Beloved.”
"Intoxicated by the Wine of Love" as translated by Margaret Smith from "The Jawhar Al-Dhat"
Variant translation:
From each, Love demands a mystic silence.
As translated in Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman and Robert Frager
Context: From each a mystic silence Love demands.
What do all seek so earnestly? 'Tis Love.
What do they whisper to each other? Love.
Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts.
In Love no longer "thou" and "I" exist,
For Self has passed away in the Beloved.
Blessings (1998)
Context: Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic — love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
“What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.”
Sobornost (1977)
“To be loved means to be recognized as existing.”
Source: Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
[2005, Stations of Wisdom, World Wisdom, 94, 978-0-94153218-1]
God, Reverential fear and love
