Delmore Schwartz Quotes

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

Love is an act of courage.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.

Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we're willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we're also willing to respond with courage.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

To save all we must risk all.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

Love is a credulous thing.

Everyone does things for love.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.