To Love Is To Suffer And There Can Be No Love Otherwise.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

Human existence is handed over to itself in its having-to-be [Zu-sein]. “Handed over”—that means: already in, already ahead-of-itself, already familiar with the world, never something just-there but always already a possibility that has been decided one way or the other. Such human existence is always already prior to what it de facto is at any given moment. But prior to every possible “prior” is time itself, which makes it possible that human existence can be the very possibility of its self.

Martin Heidegger, Logic

The Roman tradition knew of a Venus Victrix who was credited with generating an imperial stock (Venus Genitrix); the Celtic tradition mentioned supernatural women who take warriors to mysterious islands to make them immortal with their love. Eve, according to an etymology of the name, means “Life;’ or “the Living One.” Thus, without proceeding further with similar examples, which I have discussed elsewhere, I wish to emphasize that a very widespread symbolism has seen in the woman a vivifying and transfiguring power, through which it is possible to overcome the human condition.

Julius Evola, The Mystery of the Grail

Anything that changes does not keep its being, and anything that can change even though it does not, is able to not be what it was; and thus only that which not only does not but also absolutely cannot change deserves without qualification to be said really and truly to be.

Augustine, De Trinitate, Book V.

In order to think the Anaximander fragment we must first of all, but then continually, take a simple step: we must cross over to what that always unspoken word, έόν, εόντα, εΐναι says. It says: presencing into unconcealment. Concealed in that word is this: presencing brings unconcealment along with itself.  Unconcealment itself is presencing. Both are the Same, though they are not identical. What is present is that which, whether presently or not, presences in unconcealment. Along with the 'Αλήθεια which belongs to the essence of Being, the Λήθηremains entirely unthought, as in conse[56]quence do "presently" and "non-presently," i.e. the region of the open expanse in which everything present arrives and in which the presencing to one another of beings which linger awhile is unfolded and delimited. Because beings are what is present in the manner of that which lingers awhile, once they have arrived in unconcealment they can linger there, they can appear. 

Martin Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking

The word ‘substance’ (οὐσία) is applied, if not in more senses, still at least to four main objects; for both the essence (τί ἦν εἶναι) and the universal (καθόλου) and the genus (γένος) are thought to be the substance of each thing, and fourthly the substratum (ὑποκείμενον). Now the substratum is that of which everything else is predicated, while it is itself not predicated of anything else. And so we must first determine this; for that which underlies a thing primarily is thought to be in the truest sense its substance. And in one sense matter (ὕλη) is said to be of the nature of substratum, in another, shape (μορφή), and in a third, the compound of these. (By the matter I mean, for instance, the bronze, by the shape the pattern of its form, and by the compound of these the statue, the concrete whole.) Therefore if the form is prior to the matter and more real, it will be prior also to the compound of both, for the same reason.

Aristotle, Metaphysics