Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.
I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings 'cause that's what makes drama happen or tension even if it's a comedy.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
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