“Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster”

Il est impossible d'aimer une seconde fois ce qu'on a véritablement cessé d'aimer.
Maxim 286.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)

Original: (it) Il solo fatto di essere complicata, ma dannatamente speciale ti fa innamorare.
Source: prevale.net

The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 39
Context: Our courteous Lord willeth not that His servants despair, for often nor for grievous falling: for our falling hindereth not Him to love us. Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love. But He willeth that we take heed thus that He is Ground of all our whole life in love; and furthermore that He is our everlasting Keeper and mightily defendeth us against our enemies, that be full fell and fierce upon us; — and so much our need is the more for we give them occasion by our falling.

A New Slant on Life (1998).

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

Lispeth.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)