Daniel Handler Quotes

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

Sometimes, it's easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It's like there's less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn't know you.

love is the biggest con of all

Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls?

Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.

Love is the water of life, jump into this water.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Love is a negative form of hatred.

Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be.

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.