JUST ANOTHER FOUR-LETTER WORD

Love is a universal migraine,
A bright stain on the vision,
Blotting out reason.
-Robert Graves

Love is a constant interrogation. I wouldn't be surprised to find some people hoping to get taken in for questioning by the secret police, just to have someone to tell their lives to.
-Milan Kundera

[Love is] nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
-Michel de Montaigne

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
-Harlan Ellison

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.
-Charles Bukowski

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.
-Theophrastus

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be?
I know not, but I feel the agony.
-Catullus

People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
-La Rouche foucauld

Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach.
-Nathaniel Branden

It is the whole modern conception of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.
-Andre Breton

The real genius for love lies in not getting into, but getting out of, love.
-George Moore

While I have little to say in favor of sex, it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.
-Quentin Crisp

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover
doth polish the face of his beloved
until she produces a skull.
-John Updike

Falling out of love is very enlightening; for a short while you see the world with new eyes.
-Dame Iris Murdoch

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
-Oscar Wilde

Every love's the love before
In a duller dress.
-Dorothy Parker

Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.
-Johnny Rotten

And my personal reigning all-time favorite quote:

After participating in an orgy and being invited back the very next night, Voltaire declined with the following explanation: "Once, a philosopher; twice, a pervert."

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