“I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my lonliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall, like seeking love in a whorehouse.”

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

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American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933–2004

Anita Moorjani (1959) writer

“I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by.”

Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt

Variant: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“Falling in love is kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.”

movie Her

“When someone tells you, “I love you,” and then you feel, “Oh, I must be worthy after all,” that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, “I hate you,” and you think, “Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,” that’s not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, “I love you,” he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, “I hate you,” she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views—literally.”

Adyashanti (1962) Spiritual teacher

“The only reason something feels really good, it’s because you didn’t know it before. If you fall in love, it’s because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet. If you didn’t have anxiety, then you wouldn’t have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you’re thoughtful.”

Kristen Stewart (1990) American actress

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/kristen-stewart-suppressing-emotions-giving-822486/amp/

“Love is a choice. It's not only a feeling.
It's not ecstatic fireworks or fluttery butterflies.
Love may start there but real love is a choice that we make every single day.
It's an intention and an action.”

Sheryl Paul

“I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such,
although I liked a few folk pretty well.
Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch,
for brave men died and empires rose and fell.

For love, girls follow boys to foreign lands,
and men have followed women into hell.
In plays and poems someone understands,
there’s something makes us more than blood and bone.

And more than biological demands
for me love’s like the wind unseen, unknown.
I see the trees are bending where it’s been.
I know that it leaves wreckage where it’s blown.

I really don’t know what "I love you" means.
I think it means don’t leave me here alone…”

Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer

Source: báseň Dark Sonnet z knihy Adventures in the Dream Trade

“No offence but i think a lot of us me included don’t actually want romantic love as badly as we think and really are just lonely and crave a closeness and intimacy that feels out of reach in friendships because of society’s emphasis on marriage and the nuclear family so we project that into the never ending search for a perfect love and a soulmate when really we all just want to mean something to someone.”

Haley O'Hora

Source: https://seashellronan.tumblr.com/post/189946732645/no-offence-but-i-think-a-lot-of-us-me-included

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005)

“I love mankind …, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Los hermanos Karamazov

Source: The Brothers Karamazov

“I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my lonliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall, like seeking love in a whorehouse.”

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