Friday, December 24, 2010

Answers Offered To the Question "What Is Love?" As Asked By Haddaway

Love is not a victory march / It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.
- Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah"

Love is the law.
- Aleister Crowley

Love is always over in the morning.
- Andrew Eldritch, "Temple of Love"

Love is the eyes of god, hate is his asshole.
- Perry Farrell

Love is the shit that makes life bloom and you never know when you might step in it!
- Michael Franti

Love is a bomb that destroys all evil.
- Gerontissa Gabrielia

Love ... is the exact reverse of desire, for love is all activity. Instead of the object coming to me, it is I who go to the object and become part of it.
- José Ortega y Gasset

Oh baby, don't hurt me
- Haddaway, "What Is Love?"

Love is the gun that I fire inside of you.
- Mary Beats Jane, "Day In, Day Out"

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
- Novalis

Love is one of the answers humankind invented to stare death in the face: time ceases to be a measure, and we can briefly know paradise.
- Octavio Paz

Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter.
- Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

Love is the proof and the very substance of his [God's] reality.
- Simone Weil