The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
“Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.”
Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here
Variant: There's a fine line between love and hate. Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.
Source: A Place Called Here
George Gordon Byron book The Bride of Abydos
Canto I, Stanza 6; this can be compared to: "The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love", Thomas Gray, The Progress of Poesy I. 3, line 16; also: "Oh, could you view the melody / Of every grace / And music of her face", Richard Lovelace, Orpheus to Beasts; "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
“Love is what the mind intuits, the soul receives and the heart manages.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) L'amore è ciò che la mente intuisce, l'anima recepisce ed il cuore gestisce.
Source: prevale.net
Henry Martyn Robert (1837–1923) United States Army general and Chief of Engineers
Robert's Rules of Order Revised, 1915, preface http://www.paulmcclintock.com/quotes.htm
“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
Terry Pratchett book Sourcery
Source: Sourcery
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
A Death in the Desert (1864)
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Ann Radcliffe book The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho, Shipwreck; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 704.
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