Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering. People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate -- and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.

Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. "The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting a war for" -Harry Dresden

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.