Yehuda Amichai Love Quotes & Sayings

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence. — Yehuda Amichai

Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time. — Yehuda Amichai

I know a man
who photographed the view he saw
from the window of the room where he made love
and not the face of the woman he loved there. — Yehuda Amichai

All desires are the inappropriate substitute for the desire to be at one with God. — Russell Brand

Dreams can either die young or mature to become realities depending on how they are handled! — Israelmore Ayivor

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. — Norman Lear

The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body. — Yehuda Amichai

In the end, the problem was not grief. Grief was the first cause, perhaps, but it soon gave way to something else - something more tangible, more calculable in its effects, more violent in the damage it produced. A whole chain of forces had been set in motion, and at a certain point I began to wobble, to fly in greater and greater circles around myself, until at last I spun out of orbit. — Paul Auster

Good luck in there," he called out, but Avery was already a world away. — Katharine McGee

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege. — Yehuda Amichai

Look, just as time isn't inside clocks
love isn't inside bodies:
bodies only tell the love. — Yehuda Amichai

For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman. — Caitlyn Jenner

Try to remember some details. For the world
is filled with people who were torn from their sleep
with no one to mend the tear,
and unlike wild beasts they live
each in his lonely hiding place and they die
together on battlefields
and in hospitals.
And the earth will swallow all of them,
good and evil together, like the followers of Korah,
all of them in their rebellion against death,
their mouths open till the last moment,
praising and cursing in a single
howl. Try, try
to remember some details. — Yehuda Amichai

Yes, all of this is sorrow. But leave a little love burning always like the small bulb in the room of a sleeping baby that gives him a bit of security and quiet love though he doesn't know what the light is or where it comes from. — Yehuda Amichai