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Joseph Campbell Quotes

Joseph Campbell quotes about love

American Author March 26, 1904 – October 31, 1987

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Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved. Joseph Campbell
Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "Love is a friendship set to music."
Love is a friendship set to music. Joseph Campbell
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)"
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell quote: "For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man,..."
For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary. Joseph Campbell

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