To love requires loving without being able or willing to wait any longer to love perfectly, definitively, and forever. Loving demands that the first … - Jean-Luc Marion
" "To love requires loving without being able or willing to wait any longer to love perfectly, definitively, and forever. Loving demands that the first time already coincide with the last time. The dawn and the evening make one single twilight—the time to love does not last and is played out in an instant, a fragment, a single beat—only one heartbeat, the smallest gap, the articulum, separates us from eternity…. Death frightens the lover no more than the finish line terrorizes the runner: rather, he fears not reaching it quickly enough. Thus we have only one single instant at our disposal, one single atom of an instant, and it is now. Nunc est amandum, we must love now, now or never, now and forever. The instant is only given for that.
English
Collect this quote
About Jean-Luc Marion
Jean-Luc Marion (born 3 July 1946) is a French postmodern philosopher.
Also Known As
Alternative Names:
Jean Luc Marion
•
J.-L. Marion
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Additional quotes by Jean-Luc Marion
The gaze strains itself to see the divine, to see it by taking it up into the field of the gazeable. The more powerfully the aim is deployed, the longer it sustains itself, the richer, more extensive and more sumptuous will appear the idol on which it will stop its gaze. ... In this stop, the gaze ceases to overshoot and transpierce itself, hence it ceases to transpierce visible things, in order to pause in the splendor of one of them.
Limited Time Offer
Premium members can get their quote collection automatically imported into their Quotewise collections.
Loading...