“He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.”

“The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”

Barry Hughart book Bridge of Birds

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

“The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

“By making us aware of the futility of this wishful thinking, the psychotechnologies help free us from unhealthy dependencies. We increase our capacity to love without bargaining or expectations, to enjoy without emotional mortgages. At the same time, enhanced awareness adds luster to simple things and everyday events, so that what may seem a turn toward a more austere life is often the discovery of subtler, less perishable riches.”

Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer

“The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.”

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States

“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

“She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.”

Edna O'Brien (1930) Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short story writer

“She said, "We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. We are so terribly different." "Yes," he said, "But the more different, the more lovely the loving."”

Olaf Stapledon book Sirius