love is...

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

horrible
energy wasting
time consuming
painful
frustrating
annoying
bittersweet

and it makes me feel like crap. good morning.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Ah, the beauty of love!

Having the heart broken sucks. But the experience before the heartbreak - hoo boy, is that wonderful!

Love - the most trauma-inducing of emotions; the most joyfulhappytoecurling of emotions.

[ronzo]

2. That's not what love is...

You sure?

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

4. yes it is nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Sufis say

that the heart must be broken so that it can grow and accomodate more Love from The Beloved. My heart goes out to you in your pain. May you find peace.

[soleft]

5. The greatest thing you'll ever learn

is how to love and be loved in return.

[liberalhistorian]

40. Yeah, but if the only single men around

are mega-freepers, RW wingnuts and fundie nutballs and all your friends are married and you're watching everyone else but you loving and being loved, love sucks pig water BIG TIME!

[chefgirl]

6. Love is

The most powerful force in the universe, IMO, and the reason we're here.
And, yeah, it makes ya feel like crap.

-chef-

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Nothing is as whole as a broken heart

I think that's a Jewish saying, but I'm not sure. I learned it from a Jew, anyway.

But I think it's wholly true.

Sorry to hear of your bad love experience. Relationship ending is quite likely the worst feeling we can ever go through.

[Gore1FL]

8. Love

A one syllable substitute for codependence.

[FunBobbyMucha]

9. Hey, Gore1FL, you're certainly entitled to your opinion, but

my best friend said that about my wife and I for years while he found Ms. Wrong after Ms. Wrong (or Ms. His Own Hand during dry spells). Then on the eve of his wedding to the woman that changed his mind, changed his heart, and changed his world, I got to parrot his "codependency" rants back to him like any good best man would do, peppered with "nah-nah-nah-nah's." I'm don't know what events/people/experiences in your life led to your cynical view of love, but I hope someone comes along and rocks your world (in a good way) someday.

[liberalhistorian]

41. Well, she's twenty or so years younger than me,

and I have yet to come close to that while watching everyone else have all the romance and attention and love, so don't be too sure it'll happen.

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. love is similar

to the feeling you get when you put on your winter coat for the first time in months and find out you left a $20 bill in the pocket.

:D

[liberalhistorian]

42. Yeah, well, maybe to you,

but right now, when I ain't got none and haven't for years and years,and am feeling like total shit because of it, that just ain't the way I'm looking at it.

[Robb]

11. Love is Hell

"Love is a slippery eels that bites like hell."
-- Bertrand Russell

"Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun."
-- Kierkegaard

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the icy tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
-- Nietzsche

;)

Edited to add this important edu-tainment cartoon:

[Tyler Durden]

12. Where did you get those? I haven't seen them in years!

They're National Lampoon, right?

I love those.

on edit:

LIFE IN HELL! My absolute favorite. The Gospel according to Matt Groening!

[Robb]

13. Nope, Matt Groening circa 1984

Life in Hell cartoons. :)

[Whitacre D_WI]

14. Love is never having to say you're sorry!

"Love is never having to say you're sorry!"


God, that's the funniest damn movie...

[L.A.dweller]

30. You mean "Love Story"?

I read that book twice and cried like a baby both times. How can the movie be funny?

[liberalhistorian]

43. It isn't funny, it's ridiculous

because not many people will ever experience anything like that. I know I'm sure as hell beginning to believe I won't. And if one more smug married or attached person pats me on the head and says to just be patient, it'll happen when you least expect it, the sun shines on those who lift their face up to receive it, etc., etc., etc., I'm gonna throw something and then I'm gonna puke.

[GOPisEvil]

15. Hey Maggie!

:pals:

It'll get better.

[Liberal Classic]

16. Love Stinks

You love her
But she loves him
And he loves somebody else
You just can't win
And so it goes
Till the day you die
This thing they call love
It's gonna make you cry
I've had the blues
The reds and the pinks
One thing for sure

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah

Two by two and side by side
Love's gonna find you yes it is
You just can't hide
You'll hear it call
Your heart will fall
Then love will fly
It's gonna soar
I don't care for any casanova thing
All I can say is
Love stinks

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah

I've been through diamonds
I've been through minks
I've been through it all
Love stinks

(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah
(Love stinks)
Love stinks yeah yeah

[liberalhistorian]

44. LOL!

Now THAT'S more like it!

[Aristus]

17. Love makes me feel

the way I hope I really am. (To borrow from Selena Kyle).

Hang in there, Maggie. We love you.

[bearfan454]

18. Love is

spending time with my wife and granddaughter. I love them both a lot.

[TXvote]

19. Someone Once Told Me

that love is like taking the most delicate glass version of your heart and handing it to a stranger knowing that at some point they are bound to smash it into a million pieces. All love breaks our heart eventually. The trick is remembering that you got to smile first.

On a lighter note, here's some voter love to make you smile
www.votervirgin.com
Peace,
Teresa

[populistmom]

20. Good one

And how true sometimes. Welcome to DU!

[GOPisEvil]

21. Welcome to DU from the capital of Occupied Texas

:hi:

[TXvote]

32. Howdy Back At Ya

The one thing about having been in the occupied territories much longer than the rest of the country is that I have come to accept the "unbelievable".... nice site. Very FAST.

[Character Assassin]

22. According to Matt Groenig.....

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."

[ironflange]

23. Love has many different forms

All of them impossible to describe in words. The way I love my wife is very different from the way I love my kids, or my cats, or my Mom, or even my sister. Beer and Scotch, that's a little easier to describe. :toast:

[mdmc]

24. just sent this to my ex

Poem: "Advice to a Girl," by Sara Teasdale from Mirror of the Heart (Macmillan).

Advice to a Girl

No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed;
Lay that on your heart,
My young angry dear;
This truth, this hard and precious stone,
Lay it on your hot cheek,
Let it hide your tear.
Hold it like a crystal
When you are alone
And gaze in the depths of the icy stone.
Long, look long and you will be blessed:
No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed

[jus_the_facts]

25. Love Is Like Oxygen......

...Love is Like Oxygen....
You get too much, you get too high,
Not enough and you're gonna die.
Love gets you high. ~ELO~ :cry:

[Kolesar]

28. Sweet

That was Sweet, the band Sweet.
Until I learn more, I will just have to presume that you are sweet.

[jus_the_facts]

31. It was done by ELO too...

....I looked up the lyrics and there it was under both bands names..and yes I'm very sweet! :evilgrin:

www.letssingit.com

[dbt]

26. The Drug

"And I need to score." --Roxy Music

[furrylitldevil]

27. There's an old saying

Every man dies once before he truly starts to live.

Small consolation, I know.

[HEyHEY]

29. There's another old saying

"Love stinks....yeeaaayeaaaa"

[liberalhistorian]

45. And THAT is definitely the real

truth!

[leftist_rebel1569]

33. LOVE IS A BITCH

n/t

[Mountainman]

34. Love's blessing is to marry your best friend n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. It isn't the love that sucks...

It's the attachment to the desires that love spawns.

Like when love makes you want to have sex with someone, and they say, "Can't we just be friends?"

Or when love makes us want to be friends with someone, and they say, "Can't we just have sex?"

Or when love makes us want our child to be successful and happy, and she drops out of high school to run off with a drug smuggler.

or or or...

[liberalhistorian]

46. Or when you're watching everyone else

around you get it and you've waited for twenty years or so and you feel like shit or that there's something wrong with you because you don't have it and you're terrified you never will and are tired of seeing it happen to everyone else but you.

My, I'm in this mood and it ain't even Friday, boy am I in trouble now or what.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

55. ~hugs~

When that happens, you might think about the people who've "had it" 7 or 8 times during those 20 you've waited. Sometimes people are married for 20 years and still feel lonely as hell.

What are you looking for, LiberalHistorian? Do you want to love, or be loved, or both? Is the frustration due to never having loved someone, or is it due to never having your feelings of love reciprocated in the same way? Has anyone ever loved you that you didn't want to have a relationship with? How did that make you feel?

Sorry for all the questions...

:hug:

[FarLeftRage]

36. Love

Love is real, real is love
Love is feeling, feeling love
Love is wanting to be loved

Love is touch, touch is love
Love is reaching, reaching love
Love is asking to be loved

Love is you
You and me
Love is knowing
We can be

Love is free, free is love
Love is living, living is love
Love is needing to be loved...

John Lennon (1971)

[liberalhistorian]

37. Yeah, ain't that the

living truth!

[ProudGerman]

38. Love sucks

It lifts you up only to drop you on the rocks beneath. It teases you with ghostly images of what might be. It will pull you inside out, knock you over, and drag you a hundred feet. It'll dance around the edge of your vision, then hit you like a ton of bricks.

And every last one of us desperately wants it.

[liberalhistorian]

47. And I'm getting really damn tired of wanting it and never

getting it and watching everyone else get it, that I'm beginning to have had enough and am just washing my hands of it or the hope of it.

[TXvote]

48. Celibate For Peace

So, with a mind shift you can declare yourself celibate instead of "not getting any". Then you can join me in building a group called "Celibate For Peace: We're Not Fucking Around. Bring The Troops Home." We can log days celibate vs. days at war and see if we can tip the balance. We can wear funny t-shirts. We can turn chastity against the war machine. Much more fun than moping. I mean, don't you think our misery should count for something? Great thing is if you are not celibate one day, you can always be part of the movement again tomorrow!


Peace,
Teresa

[ProudGerman]

50. hey, I love you

I just spent the last twenty minutes trying to devise a way to send roses to you at work without you knowing about it. What can I say, I have an irrepressible Prince Charming side that *must* respond to a "lady in distress".

If this post in any way has made you smile, let me know, I wanna smile today too.

[JohnKleeb]

39. Something I wouldnt mind having but wouldnt kill me not to have

:shrug: you having a bad day Maggie?

[LincolnMcGrath]

49. Love is

Love is all around you

Love is knocking outside the door

Waitin' for you Is this love made just for two

Keep an open heart and you'll find love again

I know you'll find love again




<<Cheeseystolenlyrics>>

[jus_the_facts]

52. Hey that's not cheese....

.....that's TESLA and I always LOVE me some TESLA!! ;-)

[LincolnMcGrath]

57. It was the least I could do..............

:loveya:

[Lizz612]

51. Love is..

J. wants me, but I don't want him; I want L., but L. (beautiful L.) she has a boyfriend. So what do I do? I drop J. before I hurt him more and long for winter break when I'll see L. again. Sigh....

It makes me feel like crap, too. x(

[Terwilliger]

53. real

real is love
love is reaching, to be loved

[CandyCrim21]

54. Either way........

Love is what you make it. It can be beautiful or it can be pain. Usually its a little of both but in order to last it takes alot or work. Which makes it tiresome, time consuming, frustrating and bitter sweet. LOL Sometimes I feel like its not worth any of it but........., the other day I was working, ( working as a waitress while I'm going to school), and these two old people came in and sat down in my section. I wasn't in the best mood so I was kind of short with the man when he ordered for himself and for his wife. ( I hate men like that) ANyway, It turns out that they were celebrating their 59th wedding anniversery and I looked over at the women and she was just sitting there glowing. She had the biggest, sweetest smile painted on and they were both so proud to share that with me. That day I felt like love was worth it.

[alexwcovington]

56. Pretty much why I don't bother

That plus a whopping dose of shyness.

[Cosmic_Latte]

58. Love is weird

when it hits you at the least expected moments. It's a force you can't deny, can't hold on to, but can never afford to lose.