#love

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#exultant #kierkegaard #love #triumphant #equality

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#elizabeth-gilbert #love #pray #equality

Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

#philosophical #philosophy #romance #wisdom #wisdom-quote

He stared fixedly at the opposite bank where an angler was fishing, his line perfectly still. All of a sudden the man jerked out of the water a little sliver fish which wriggled at the end of his line. Twisting and turning it this way and that he tried to extract his hook, but in vain. Losing patience he started pulling and, as he did so, tore out the entire bloody gullet of the fish with parts of its intestines attached. Paul shuddered, feeling himself equally torn apart. It seemed to him that the hook was like his own love and that if he were to tear it out he too would be gutted by a piece of curved wire hooked deep into his essential self at the end of a line held by Madeleine. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#equality

Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries are in confidence, equality and unreserve. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#obedience #percy-shelley #equality

He said he wants variety. The irony is that I wanted variety too. But I wanted variety in a solid, stable committed relationship where I would wake up each morning asking “What are we going to do today?” not asking “Who are you going to do today? ↗

— Aimee Lane

#romance-novels #tragic-love-story #dating

I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re a loser. I think you’re wonderful. I want to be with you. I don’t want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#humor #in-love #insane-love #mad-love #obsessive-love

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#sex #experience

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? ↗

— James Patterson

#unrequited-love #yearning #experience

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too. ↗

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

#missing #experience