That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
Interpretation
True love involves selfless giving without expecting anything in return.
This quote by Albert Camus encapsulates the essence of unconditional love, highlighting the notion that genuine love is characterized by a willingness to give oneself entirely and selflessly. It reflects the idea that love should not be transactional, and the purest form of affection comes from the heart, without the expectation of receiving something back in return.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a wedding ceremony to emphasize the importance of selfless love.
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
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