Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of unconditional love, even in the face of pain and difficulty.
In this poignant quote, Charles Dickens articulates the idea that love should persist despite challenges and emotional turmoil. He urges the lover to continue expressing love, no matter how hurtful the experience may be, highlighting the resilience of love as a powerful and necessary force in our lives. This message reinforces the idea that true love is unwavering and can endure trials, ultimately fostering deeper emotional growth.
In practice
In a romantic speech, to express the importance of enduring love.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.
I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else.
Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.
Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.
Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever.
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