To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.
The Four Loves (1960)
Kontext: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
„Ja som nezlomila tvoje srdce - ty si si ho zlomil; a pri jeho zlomení si zlomil aj moje.“
„Milovať znamená, že sa srdce vysmieva rozumu.“
Prisudzované výroky
„Nechajte nás pracovať srdcom a dovoľte nám, aby sme naozaj milovali to, čo milujeme.“
„Žena myslí srdcom, a muž miluje hlavou.“
„Palice a kamene nám možno zlomia kosti, ale slová zlomia naše srdcia.“
„Milujúce srdce ide aj za tým, kto blúdi a miluje za cenu, že bude zranené.“
