#ear

The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#christ #deep-love #heart #love #the-love-of-christ

Never love that which you cannot keep. ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#sadness #love

I say, "Well then I don't know if it was real, and that makes me feel like I'm going insane again." "Absolutely it was real. It was a real, partial picture. Because it ended preemptively, things you would have learned about him in the relationship, you are instead learning in the breakup. You have learned that he has a desperate desire for intimacy and then a desperate desire for the cave. He will get lonely there eventually and come back." "To me?" He doesn't pause. "To someone new." "And I'll have to watch another girl?" "You will have to, but you will also know what lies ahead for that poor girl. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#heartbreakers #love-loss #pain #love

I still want to feel you against me.” Her gaze dropped to his hands. “I want you to stay with me. Hold me. Just tonight. If I lose you again tomorrow then it will still be worth it. I will lose you a hundred times, if you would but hold me in your arms each time before my loss.” She saw his eyes water, but no tears emerged... ↗

— B.C. Morin

#love #pain #tears #love

Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#assume #automatically #certain #costume #dramas

My dear, my dearest dust; I come, I come. ↗

— Diane Zahler

#dust #love #love

It wasn't the "I love you" she heard that made her let him go. It was the "Come with me" that she didn't. ↗

— Meghan O'Connor

#heartbreak #relationships #tragedy #love

I snorted powdered flamingoes while I pondered love. I sat at the bar two hours waiting for my ice on the rocks to melt so I could drink it and leave, but it was like my ex wife’s heart—it was just too frigid to melt. So I called up a midget, buckled myself in on his back, and had him give me a ride home. Ah, but that’s life, no?
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— Jarod Kintz

#bar #drink #ex-wife #flamingoes #frigid

... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge. ↗

— Karen Tayleur

#heart #sponge #squeeze-dry #squeezed #wave