A Lover S Discourse Quotes

“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an aquarium; I see everything close up and yet cut off, made of some other substance; I keep falling outside myself, without dizziness, without blue, into precision.”
― Roland Barthes

“What I want is a little cosmos (with its own time its own logic) inhabited only by "the two of us”
― Roland Barthes

“The lover's discourse is in a sense a series of No Exits”
― Roland Barthes

“The heart is the organ of desire (the heart swells, weakens, etc., like the sexual organs), as it is held, enchanted, within the domain of the Image-repertoire. What will the world, what will the other do with my desire? That is the anxiety in which are gathered all the heart's movements, all the heart's 'problems.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“I am waiting for an arrival, a return, a promised sign... Everything is solemn: I have no sense of proportions.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments