"Whomever said, 'It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all', never lost." - Anonymous
"Definition of 'Just Friends'": It means I don't just want you to mourn the loss; I want to remind you of it every day. I want you to suffer. I want you to envy. I want you to die slowly, a bit at a time. And I want you to smile and thank me for it." - Anonymous
"You can't hurt me unless I love you..." - Jasmine St.John
"Highest Romantic Value is that person that embodies what you want most in a partner. This is that person that has what you love about yourself PLUS those things that you value most in a romantic partner. It is an ideal that when you find a person who embodies it, you must fall in love with them (because she *is* what you value)." - Jeffrey Blatt
"Don't you tell me to smile - you stick around I'll make it worth your while" - Beastie Boys, Intergalactic
"I don't want this, remember that / I'll never forget where you're at" - Bush, Glycerine
"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are." - Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye)
"He was twenty years old, and he had fallen in love... in the wild scholastic manner of twenty-year-old men, seeing, in the tiniest minutiae, evidence of the systematic perfection of the whole and proof of a benign creation." - Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
"The world has turned and left me here / Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place, an empty space / Has filled the void behind my face
I just made love with your sweet memory / One thousand times in my head
You said you loved it more than ever" - Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)"But that's just a stupid dream that I won't realize
'cuz I can't even look in your eyes without shakin', and i ain't fakin'" - Rivers Cuomo, El Scorcho"Without love, a heart is just a clock ticking." - Equilibrium
"I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good." - Joseph Fiennes
"You see, most men haven't really committed themselves to a relationship - they've just disabled the hunting mode." - The Ferrett
"She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether you are perfect for each other." - Good Will Hunting
"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machinegun." - Matt Groening
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." - Matt Groening
"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." - Abraham Lincoln
"It's amazing what we can do with love
With some matches and gasoline, do with love,
It's amazing what we can... do with love..." - Live, Century"Turn my head, it's aimed at you..." Live, Turn My Head
" Love will overcome / If this love will make us men / Love will draw us in / To take this fear away" - Live, Sparkle
"Stan, as you get older, boobs - bu-these "ahta" will start becoming a major part of your life. But Stanley, you can't let them get in the way of your friends. There are a lot of boobs out there, son. But they're just boobs; your friends... are forever. I know you think this set of boobs is important now, but those boobs will be replaced by another set of boobs. Boobs will come and go, and then, someday, you'll meet a pair of boobs that you want to marry. And those become the boobs that matter the most." - Randy Marsh, South Park 6.10
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he a wants woman, as his most dangerous plaything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"I haven't cried in a while, but I haven't forgotten the pain; I'm never ever ever gonna go back, I'm happy here without you" - Jimmy Newquist, Happy Without You
"She put her hands upon my face, said, 'On your mark, get ready, set, go...'" - Jimmy Newquist, Ready Set Go
"If you follow, I'll cherish us, and we'll never be alone. But if you turn me down, I'm gonna leave your ass at home" - Jimmy Newquist, King for a Day
"And I'll never drop the anchor, if you'll never stop the rain, and we'll never have to feel, anyone else again." - Jimmy Newquist, Monsoon
"Waving my arms, because I don't know just who you fell for... There must be others lying in vain... Or am I the only one deep in your wake?" - Jimmy Newquist, Deep In Your Wake
"Hopeless in surprise, indeed I find your eyes simply amazing..." - Jimmy Newquist, Inside Your Mind
"It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week" - Lawrence J. Peter
"Breaking up sucks. It's one of the worst things in the world, probably right after moving to a new apartment. But you had a few good months with someone that you loved, even if you realized it too late. Don't cheapen what you had by being bitter. You had it. Now it's gone. Think fondly of her whenever you see that book she used to read or when the wind carries a certain scent to you, keep your head high, and move on. And if you think I don't know that this is easier said than done, you are oh so very wrong. But you've got to try anyway." - PeterB SOMAD, Forum3000
"Love is important. People think it should be easy because they have been told that love should make them happy, but I think that's probably a mistake. Love isn't about making you happy. It's about making you complete. Sometimes that can make you happy. Sometimes it can make the two of you into a complete asshole." - PeterB SOMAD, Forum3000
"Yeah, pretty much we hate it when chicks do that [date an ex's close friend]. I mean, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, just don't be surprised when we think you're a bitch. We're pretty much just like women in terms of this." - Peter B
"You are, of course, familiar with the gedankenexperiment of Schöedinger's cat: put a cat in a box with some sort of lethal device that may or may not kill the cat, and until you open the box, the cat is both dead and alive. I'm sure I'm getting the details wrong, but I'm just using this as a metaphor. Now, as to your question. Some girls -- and let's face it, in your case I really mean "most girls" -- really have no interest in you and are just being polite. You can tell this is the case through a simple test -- ask them to do something unspecified on a weekend. If they say no, they were just being polite. Girls who like you, however, are like Schöedinger's cat. Until the moment you actually "make the move" and collapse the wave function, they both want you to make a move and don't want you to make a move. The results aren't random, though -- it is in large part how you carry yourself that will determine the outcome. O-sensei is, of course, right. After you have reached enlightenment you will be able to tell which woman want you and which ones are Not Ready with just a glance. But if you were enlightened, you wouldn't be asking a computer for love advice, would you?" - PeterB
"You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did." - Marilyn Peterson
"In order to say 'I love you,' one must first learn to say 'I'" - Ayn Rand
"Romantic love, in the full sense of the term, is an emotion possible only to the man (or woman) of unbreached self-esteem: it is his response to his own highest values in the person of another -- an integrated response of mind and body, of love and sexual desire. Such a man (or woman) is incapable of experiencing a sexual desire divorced from spiritual values." - Ayn Rand
"[Selfless love] would have to mean that you derive no personal pleasure or happiness from the company and the existence of the person you love, and that you are motivated only by self-sacrificial pity for that person's need of you. I don't have to point out to you that no one would be flattered by, nor would accept, a concept of that kind. A 'selfless,' 'disinterested' love is a contradiction in terms: it means that one is indifferent to that which one values." - Ayn Rand
"To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love -- because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone." - Ayn Rand
"[Y]oung men get erections a lot, and when they get erections, having an orgasm tends to move to the top of the to-do-list and stay there." - Eric S. Raymond
"Isn't it wonderful to not just see the beauty on the outside, but the beauty on the inside? That's when you know you're in love..." - Carolyn Simnett
"You know, I don't know what I would do if I had to be out on the dating scene, squaring off against a bunch of cocky assholes in the elaborate combination of mating dance and tactical war that our species calls courting." - Helen Tompkins
"If we accept the old feminist argument that marriage is slavery for women, then it is undeniable that — given the current state of the nation's family courts — divorce is slavery for men." - Matthew Weeks