Astha Agarwal

“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt to take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”
― Alain de Botton, Essays in Love

“We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as ideal as we are corrupt.”
― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love

“Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people, they kept on blooming like little children and playing like dogs.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love