Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Love is like fire. Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love.
-- Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
This is what our love isâ€“â€“a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
I don't actually think â€œtrue loveâ€ is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.
Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen famous quotes

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