She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.

Richard Ronald Allan
About This Quote

The quote above is from the poem “The Rock” by Robert Browning. It is telling of the power of love. A relationship is something that occupies a space in our life, it gives us meaning. The quote above tells of this fact.

When you are in a relationship with someone, you are locked into that persons orbit. You can’t get away to live your life anymore, you are always on the other person’s mind. The quote continues on to say that this person “caused me to vanish and disperse”.

This means that this person has made you feel small and insignificant. They have stripped your self worth away from you. This feeling of being small can cause you to have negative thoughts about yourself, leading to depression.

Depression is a big factor in many cases where people attempt suicide, so this quote could mean that depression does not have to be caused by an outside force but rather by someone who loves you too much and doesn’t love themselves enough to love themselves.

Source: Exit Eleonora

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