“Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.”

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (1956) spiritual leader

“Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”

George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American drama critic and magazine editor

“The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

“But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Sign of the Four

“Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.”

Stephen King book Needful Things

“Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

“Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.”

James Spader (1960) American actor