Reply to an anonymous confession of love
Via Facebook Honesty Box, I received an anonymous confession of love. I replied with a bunch of great quotes addressing the nature of love. The reply and quotes follow.
Ahh, but what is love?
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” - Sophocles
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” - Dorothy Parker
“Love is friendship set on fire.” - unknown
“Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” - Mark Twain
“A love song is just a caress set to music.” - Sigmund Romberg
“Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.” - unknown
“Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” - Elizabeth Browning
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.”
- Woody Allen
