“Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.”

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American science fiction writer 1957

Raúl Castillo (1977) American actor, writer

On his character Richie in the show Looking in “Interview: Raúl Castillo on We the Animals, Latino Roles, & More” https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/interview-raul-castillo-on-we-the-animals-and-latino-representation/ in Slant Magazine (2018 Aug 13)

“I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Misery is a vacuum. A space without air, a suffocated dead place, the abode of the miserable. Misery is a tenement block, rooms like battery cages, sit over your own droppings, lie on your own filth. Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in front. Travel down it at furious speed though the days are mummified in lead. It happens so fast once you get started, there's no anchor from the real world to slow you down, nothing to hold on to. Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall. Whatever your private hell, you'll find millions like it in Misery. This is the town where everyone's nightmares come true.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Written on the Body (1992)

“Christ's true people are branded with love.”

Skye Jethani

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“And thus the soul pities God and feels itself pitied by him; loves Him and feels loved by Him, sheltering its misery in the bosom of the eternal and infinite misery, which, in eternalizing itself and infinitizing itself, is the supreme happiness itself.”

Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity

“The sweetest life is to be ever making sacrifices for Christ; the hardest life a man can lead on earth, the most full of misery, is to be always doing his own will and seeking to please himself.”

Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter) (1825–1906) English Anglican bishop, died 1906

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 534.

“The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.”

Joan Robinson (1903–1983) English economist

Source: Economic Philosophy (1962), p. 45

“The sort of misery that brings no moral reward, misery that is of no value to the mind and soul, that is the true misery, it is hopeless, bestial and nothing else.”

Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“We must not pursue science for ends independent of science. It must be pursued for its own sake, and must lead to its own results.”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian

Private journal (1858), quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952), p. 40

“Love is something like the notion that, despite its suffering, Being is good and you should serve Being.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

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