Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.
Love cannot burn constantly.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
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