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Fathers and teachers, I ponder, “What is hell?” I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book VI, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In context
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Slapstick (1976), Prologue
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
Colette1873–1954Break of Day (1928)
- Friendship
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus1913–1960A Happy Death (written 1938), first published as La mort heureuse (1971), as translated by Richard Howard (1972)
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
- Marriage
- Women
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #179
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden1907–1973The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
- Laughter
You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.
John Keats1795–1821To Fanny Brawne (March 1820)
Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything.
José Martí1853–1895Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Stendhal1783–1842De L’Amour (On Love) (1822), Ch. 1
Others boast of their love for God. My boast is that I did not love God; it was He who loved me and sought me out and forced me to belong to Him.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Bhakti
- God
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm1900–1980The Art of Loving (1956)
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1770) p. 182
- Hope
- Marriage
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894“Lay Morals” Ch. 4, in Lay Morals and Other Essays (1911).
- Friendship
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Marriage and Morals (1929)
- Marriage
- Women