The Sorrows of Love Quotes

“We believe we seek happiness in love, but actually what we often seek is familiarity – which may complicate any plans we might have for happiness.”
― The School of Life, The Sorrows of Love

“This, too, is a legacy of Romanticism, an ideology that lulls us into the unhelpful belief that love is not something to be worked at, because it is a feeling and not a skill. We need only surrender to our emotions and our relationships will thrive. But we might be wiser to embrace a notion that love is inherently hard, and that if it feels too hard, this is only because we don’t possess the right set of skills to cope with its arduousness.”
― The School of Life, The Sorrows of Love

“We would be wiser to follow Romantic Realism in trusting that love will prove challenging for us, not for accidental or unique reasons, but for structural and intractable ones. Paradoxically, Romantic Realism is not the enemy of love; it is one of the attitudes that best contributes to the flourishing and survival of relationships in the long term.”
― The School of Life, The Sorrows of Love