To Love Is To Suffer And There Can Be No Love

“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.”

“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”

“Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.”

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.”