Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the primal and urgent nature of lovemaking, contrasting it with civilized behavior.
Margaret George's quote captures the raw, instinctual force of lovemaking that transcends civilized conversation and decorum. In the passionate act, individuals become more like animals, consumed by a powerful desire that leads to a fleeting moment of profound pleasure. This experience, however, is intertwined with the awareness of mortality, as it represents both the vitality of life and the inevitability of death, highlighting the duality of human existence.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a wedding to highlight the intensity of romantic relationships.
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.
A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.
I hope never to marry in this way; I wish to make my wife happy, but not to become rich by her means, so I will let things alone and enjoy my golden freedom till I am so well off that I can support both wife and children.
Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.
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