
“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems
“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Poems and Ballads (1866-89), The Triumph of Time
Context: The loves and hours of the life of a man,
They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.
Hours that rejoice and regret for a span,
Born with a man's breath, mortal as he;
Loves that are lost ere they come to birth,
Weeds of the wave, without fruit upon earth.
I lose what I long for, save what I can,
My love, my love, and no love for me!
“Who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.”
1 Timothy 2:4 (as quoted in World English Bible http://biblehub.com/web/1_timothy/2.htm)
First Epistle to Timothy
“My Lord, I am sure I can save this country, and no one else can.”
Said to the Duke of Devonshire in 1756, quoted in Horace Walpole, Memoirs of King George II (Yale University Press, 1985), III, p. 1.
“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”