“Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.”

Source: The Plague of Doves

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness." by Louise Erdrich?
Louise Erdrich photo
Louise Erdrich 25
writer from the United States 1954

Related quotes

Alastair Reynolds photo
Lydia Maria Child photo

“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.”

Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist

1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/66/12266.html, vol. 1, letter 37

John Muir photo

“There is a love of wild Nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love ever showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

July 1890, page 315
John of the Mountains, 1938

Becky Stark photo
William Shakespeare photo
Neil Diamond photo

“It's Love, Brother Love, say
Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show.
Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies.
And ev'ryone goes, 'cause everyone knows
Brother Love's show.”

Neil Diamond (1941) American singer-songwriter

Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show
Song lyrics, Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show (1969)

Related topics