Devotion Quotes

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as a joke, said it with contempt, spitting on me--even then I would have jumped!

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.

It happens all the time in heaven,And some dayIt will begin to happenAgain on earth -That men and women who are married,And men and men who areLovers,And women and womenWho give each otherLight,Often will get down on their kneesAnd while so tenderlyHolding their lover's hand,With tears in their eyes,Will sincerely speak, saying,My dear,How can I be more loving to you;How can I be more kind?

A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart!No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself

She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but a weary one, I am proud of it and glad of it. I am proud and glad to suffer something for him, even though it is of no service to him, and he will never know of it or care for it.

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.

"Mine ain't a selfish affection, you know," said Mr. Toots, in the confidence engendered by his having been a witness of the Captain's tenderness. "It's the sort of thing with me, Captain Gills, that if I could be run over - or - or trampled upon - or - or thrown off a very high place -or anything of that sort - for Miss Dombey's sake, it would be the most delightful thing that could happen to me."

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,To die upon the hand I love so well

He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.

I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.

So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!

Behold me! I am worthyOf thy loving, for I love thee!

For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.

This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

Ever since my children were born, the moment I looked at them I was crazy about them. Once I held them I was hooked. I am addicted to my children sir. I love them with all my heart and the idea of someone telling me I can't be with them, I can't see them everyday. Well, it's like someone saying I can't have air.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.

My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

Unless you can feel when the song is doneNo other is sweet in its rhythm;Unless you can feel when left by oneThat all men else go with him.