Mortimer Adler Quotes

Love is always being given where it is not required.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.

Unrequited love's a bore.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

I'm one of the few people I've ever met who is blessed enough to be able to love the one who got away.

I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.