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.
But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in its spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time.
I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.
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