Union Quotes

“You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject...

Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire.

The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other... In this moment, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition: nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they seem definitively fulfilled... A moment of affirmation; for a certain time, though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction).”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition,
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell”
― General Philip Henry Sheridan

“Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Ballet in the air...
Twin butterflies until, twice white
They Meet, they mate”
― Bashō, Japanese Haiku

“Here's another poem,
like all others before and after,
dedicated to you.
There isn't anything left to be said
but I will spend my life
trying to put you into words.
You who is every goodness,
every optimism
and hope.
Your love is a better fate for me
than anything I could wish for.
If you are a part of me,
then you’re the best part.
And if you're separate from me,
then you are my destination.
But I’ve become a weary traveller,
so please,
let us never be apart.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union”
― Rollo May

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“But being the mirrors for each other's souls has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in the mating pair have become indistinguishable. Before their merger, they each yearned for the other; as they part, they part from the self. The very quality that attracted them to each other is also, inevitably, destroyed in their union.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“From the union of power and money,
from the union of power and secrecy,
from the union of government and science,
from the union of government and art,
from the union of science and money,
from the union of ambition and ignorance,
from the union of genius and war,
from the union of outer space and inner vacuity,
the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.”
― Wendell Berry

“Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.

And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.

Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Weddings have logic, but Marriages have emotions”
― Santosh Avvannavar, Dear Wife, Your Husband is not a Superhero: “Weddings have logic, but Marriages have only emotions”

“Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The mind, unfettered by the constraints of the ego, dances with the cosmos in ecstatic union”
― J. R. Damon, Sun Circle: a magickal solar grimoire

“The mind, unfettered by the constraints of the ego, dances with the cosmos in ecstatic union”
― J.R. Damon, Sun Circle: a magickal solar grimoire

“Trouble at the docks, you'll get rocked...”
― Dizma

“De todas las palabras desgastadas, erosionadas y ensuciadas que hay en nuestro vocabulario, -amor- es seguramente la más pestilente, maloliente y estropeada. Proferida desde un millón de púlpitos, lascivamente entonada en cientos de millones de altavoces, se ha convertido en un ultraje al buen gusto y a los sentimientos decentes, una obscenidad que cualquiera duda en pronunciar. Y sin embargo, es preciso pronunciarla, ya que, después de todo, el amor tiene la última palabra.”
― Aldous Huxley, Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience

“Les partícules s'agraden d'estar juntes. Podria ser que el moviment quàntic fos només això: buscar-se, colpir-se, consumar-se.”
― Helena Guilera Recoder, L'escuma

“Expect to learn not to expect.”
― Francis Lucille, Eternity Now

“The new political integration might well have doomed Scotland to the status of an English economic satellite: a supplier of foods, raw materials and cheap labour for the more sophisticated southern economy but with little possibility of achieving manufacturing growth and diversification in her own right...Union could well have been the political prelude to 'the development of underdevelopment' rather than the catalyst for a new age or progress and prosperity.”
― T.M. Devine, The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700 - 2000

“In a captive environment, why wish for the union? A caged bird remembers no water or food.”
― Habibullah Bulbul - حبیب الله بلبل

“This pen shall think too much of the unconditional love that went beyond human lengths of understanding to make us feel our inseparable union with Almighty Love.”
― Rachael Cannon, The Heart of the Lily: Volume One

“The differences that threaten to tear your church apart are opportunities to demonstrate that being ‘in accord with Christ Jesus’ is all we need to be in ‘harmony with one another.’ That’s how ‘with one voice’ we ‘glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
― Jamie Dunlop, Love the Ones Who Drive You Crazy: Eight Truths for Pursuing Unity in Your Church

“I never doubted their capabilities. Now, I feel a renewed sense of assurance that we are one step closer to my girls having opportunities they could only dream about not that long ago. Unions, Equality, and Kamala: Why This Election Matters to Me (Medium Story)”
― Carlos Wallace

“Love always unconditionally united, tends to unite all things, even if it units in separation, absence and differentiation. Love is not given an unlimited aspiration but the totality, in itself, of things that, due to their existential condition, are differentiated, but united on the plane of the spirit.”
― Geverson Ampolini