“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”

“I was very melancholic in the beginning. Then I was very angry. Then I fell in love again — but not stupid like in the beginning.”

Laura Pausini (1974) Italian singer

“I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.”

Willis Lamb (1913–2008) American Physicist

“Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

“It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.
[Vincent Van Gogh]”

Irving Stone book Lust for Life

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

“It is very easy to love alone.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist