Intertwined Emotions Quotes

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love

Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.

Fear is the brother of hate.

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into the throat of grief. Can you make laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same thing?

The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.

I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters, I have both the personal and the political. And their relationship is about ardor. It's about fun. And it's also about politics.

Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states.

Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint