Quotebook: Love and Misery

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. -Margaret Cho

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -Mark Twain

To love another person is to see the face of God. -Les Miserables

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and VERY important. -Lisa Hoffman

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. -John Keats

One is very crazy when in love. -Sigmund Freud

"Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -Robert A. Heinlein

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. -Anna Louise Strong

The three worst states of mind: sleeplessness, jealousy, and unrequited love. -Hao Shan Liao

Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love. -Charlie Brown

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. -Anais Nin

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -Matt Groening

Tragedy by far speaks to the human condition more than the other arts, because we recognize the fatality of life from its outset. 'Birth' is tragedy, for birth ends in death. 'Love' is tragedy, for it ends in betrayal or, at best, in faint memories of what was. -Ron Resnick

Love, n.: An itching about the heart that you cannot scratch. -Gaelic saying

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are. -Carl Sandburg

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. -Sophocles, (495-405 BCE)

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. -Lynda Barry

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine-gun. -Matt Groening

The greatest love is a mother's, then comes a dog's, then a sweetheart's. -Polish proverb

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. -Jean de la Bruyere, essayist and moralist (1645-1696)

Every joy must be paid for twice over with sorrow. -August Strindberg, A Dream Play

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -William Shakespeare

Sleep is death without the responsibility. -Fran Leibowitz