I just came across this quote. Interestingly enough, it is quite relevant to things that I am exploring about my life right now. With that halfway cryptic statement, here it is:
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell." (emphasis added)
- CS Lewis, The Four Loves
3 comments:
That's a great quote! Are you reading that book, or did you get it somewhere else?
But being outside the casket can be so haarrddddddd...
Love cs. He's my dead boyfriend. (In a non-cheating sort of way.)
I love this. So. Much.
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