I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.
Interpretation
Strong emotions like love and admiration are essential to our existence.
This quote by Jean-Dominique Bauby emphasizes the profound necessity of strong emotions in human life. Just as breathing is vital for our physical well-being, the experience of love and admiration is essential for our emotional and spiritual health. Bauby's words remind us that our capacity to feel deeply is just as crucial as our biological needs.
In practice
This quote could be used in a romantic speech to express the importance of love.
Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)
I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God
We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.
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