5 Quotes by Gillian Rose

This is the counsel of despair which would keep the mind out of hell. The tradition is far kinder in its understanding that to live, to love, is to be failed; to forgive, to have failed, to be forgiven, for ever and ever. Keep your mind in hell, and despair not.

To grow in love-ability is to accept the boundaries of oneself and others, while remaining vulnerable, woundable, around the bounds. Acknowledgement of conditionality is the only unconditionality of human love.

There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy.

A soul that is unbound is as mad as one with cemented borders.

You may be weaker than the whole world but you are always stronger than yourself.