Emotional Disparity Quotes

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

The world doesn't grieve when you're grieving. The world goes on about its business. You're having a good day and I'm having a bad one and vice versa. And they could be very good and very bad at the same time. You multiply that by seven billion and you have one element of human experience.

We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.

The depiction of the exterior as opposed [to] what you're feeling inside is always so different that it's impossible to know what is right.

Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.

The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.