The Blessed Damozel Love Quotes

Here we have the still-living lover telling us what a total drag it is to have survived the damozel's death back here on Earth. She's been dead ten years—which is a long time, we have to admit. Even still, it feels way longer than that to him. His suffering, oddly enough, is a sign of his love for his lady.

Rub it in, why don't you? The damozel is surrounded by reunited lovers, as they rush past her on their way to see God. Talk about feeling like a third wheel. These lovers are a painful reminder of how alone she is up in heaven without her own partner.

It may seem, sometimes, like being in love and losing your mind are two very similar things. Here we see the still-alive lover practically hallucinating that the damozel is with him. That's how strong the fantasy of being with her has him in its grips. Is this break with reality charming (he loves her a lot) or troubling (he loves her too much)? Maybe it's a bit of both.

Here the damozel is fantasizing about all the fun times she and her lover are going to experience—once he makes it up to heaven, of course. At long last they'll be together. So, she wants them to spend some quality alone time, hidden away from everyone else—praying, of course.

The damozel—in her continuing fantasy—just knows that Mary will be down with her relationship with her lover. Maybe the fact that they aren't officially married has them both nervous about the prospect of a reunion in heaven. It's telling, in any case, that they'll essentially need permission from both Mary and Jesus before the damozel's lover is allowed to stick around in heaven. (See "Themes: Religion" for more.)

Here we see the ultimate goal that both the damozel and her lover are after: a reunion in heaven. All they want is to keep on doing in heaven what they were doing back on Earth. And what they were doing is summed up simply here: living "With Love."