#des

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.” --from Past Present and Future are One ↗

— Aberjhani

#history #philosophy #poetry #spirituality #theories

We speak of love when we destroy nature. It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance. ↗

— Toba Beta

#destruction-of-nature #innocence #speak-of-love #love

You have to love someone completely to be willing to destroy them. ↗

— Deanna Raybourn

#love #love

What good does it do you to love? ↗

— Trisha Leigh

#deshi #dissidents #love #love-hurts #lucas

Wir dachten alle, du wärst getoastet worden!" - Hector Delos "Wurde ich auch." - Lucas Delos ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#göttlich-verliebt #hector #lucas #romance-love #ya-fantasy

Even in love we suffer, because in that very moment of love, Time, the insatiable Devourer, is destroying what we love...or ourselves. ↗

— Christopher Dutton

#love #time #love

At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#anticipation #virgin-suicides #love

The supernova sun would be cooler than the fire lighting our desire. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#heat #hot #love #lust #sun

I was trying to foment a little dissension.' He paused. 'No, that's too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlike—injecting a little love?' He snorted. 'Through violence, of course, like all religious reformers. ↗

— L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#trystin-desoll #violence #love

That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life? ↗

— David Baddiel

#life