Quotes from book

Of Love and Other Demons

“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”

“When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.”

“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”

“Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.”

“What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.”

“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”

“I live in fear of being alive.”

“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”

“He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.”

“One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".”