Love Asymmetry Quotes

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump.

One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.

It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?