“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
Source: The Secret History
“Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“Love can conquer everything but reality.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Variant: Love can conquer everything but reality. Which will win every stinking time.
Source: Lover Unleashed
“Whoever does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.”
John the Evangelist (10–98) author of the Gospel of John; traditionally identified with John the Apostle of Jesus, John of Patmos (author o…
1 John 4:8 http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/b/r1/lp-e/nwt/E/2013/62/4#h=20:141-20:213, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures <br class="br">First Letter of John
“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
Judith McNaught (1944) American writer
Source: Once and Always
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
Der des Jargons Kundige braucht nicht zu sagen, was er denkt, nicht einmal recht es zu denken: das nimmt der Jargon ihm ab und entwertet den Gedanken.
Source: Jargon der Eigentlichkeit [Jargon of Authenticity] (1964), p. 9
“Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.”
Ted Nelson (1937) American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist; coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia"
quoted by Gary Wolf in "The Curse of Xanadu" http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu_pr.html in Wired (6/1995)