John Fowles book Daniel Martin
Source: Daniel Martin (1977), Ch. 2, Games
LOVE (1972)
John Fowles book Daniel Martin
Source: Daniel Martin (1977), Ch. 2, Games
“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
“No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.”
Françoise Sagan book Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
“When one does not love the impossible, one does not love anything.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Cuando no se quiere lo imposible, no se quiere.
Voces (1943)
“When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
David Levithan book Every Day
Variant: It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.
Source: Every Day
“One falls in love through fame.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Canzone 53, st. 8
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Variant: I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer
fall in love when they grow old--not knowing that they grow old when they stop
falling in love.