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There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

— Roger Ebert

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

— Maya Angelou

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

— Helen Fisher

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

— Elizabeth Bowen

We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

— Orhan Pamuk

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

— Benjamin Jowett

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

— Maggie Q

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

— E. M. Forster

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.

— Kristin Armstrong

Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.

— Marianne Williamson

✗Opposing Perspectives

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.