# Love is overrated **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 28, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378 "2018-03-28T21:38:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/21 "2018-03-29T06:55:06Z")
> [@Machinaforce](#): > > He is born alone, and alone he dies. I’m taking some of you with me. Love is higher then a mountain Love is thicker than water You are this dreamers only dream Heaven’s angel , devil’s daughter ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/22 "2018-03-29T06:59:09Z")
True love is the greatest thing, in the world-except for a nice MLT ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/23 "2018-03-29T07:10:01Z")
[(Sometimes) Love Is Only Sleeping](https://youtu.be/cMlIgqzggt4) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/24 "2018-03-29T11:51:40Z")
> [@Machinaforce](#): > > To sum it up - Love towards abstract things is ironically real…mainly because abstract things are a perception of one’s own mind…and hence your mind is totally attached to it. > > Love towards “real” things is ironically an illusion…mainly because both of your minds are fickle Taking a pause here for a sec - **Machinaforce** : - Yes, within the context of Life is Suffering (Buddha, yes?) - Humans are frail, and Love is certainly with the scope of that. - Folks are having fun in this thread because we all see how this is another version of your cyclical suffering threads. Because we all know we can’t break your cycle, why not discuss how [Love Bites](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU9arbwaeyU)? - What’s your point with this cycle of angst? “Love is Overrated”? Nah, “Love is an Illusion” is more cynically realistic - we all want to chase the butterfly - but the way Love carbonates our brains is not overrated, just too-frequently misguided. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/25 "2018-03-29T12:14:12Z")
“Love is a beautiful cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea. Love is a thing that can never go wrong… And I am the queen of Romania!” Dorothy Parker If Love was labeled ‘Poison’, we’d drink it anyway, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/26 "2018-03-29T12:19:45Z")
1. The biggest thing I learned when I took philosophy is that, mostly, it is a marathon of nonsense disguised as a word game. 2. There is nothing deeper than love. It brings out the greatest attributes in human kind; not being alone, not being angry, not hating, not anything but love. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/27 "2018-03-29T12:32:47Z")
> [@](#): > > If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. > > Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. > > Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/28 "2018-03-29T13:08:54Z")
Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/29 "2018-03-29T13:18:33Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Obviously you have never been in love. Love makes you feel giddy, dizzy, euphoric, horny, irritable, morose and sometimes suicidal. Oxygen more or less makes you feel normal. You get too much, you get too high. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/30 "2018-03-29T13:21:01Z")
Love is a pretty flower, that smells bad. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/31 "2018-03-29T13:30:45Z")
What is this thing called love? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/32 "2018-03-29T13:34:36Z")
I thought love was Blue. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/33 "2018-03-29T13:56:53Z")
I’ve heard love is generally regarded in the following order: It is a river, a razor, a hunger, and then a flower. Your mileage may vary. I was actually discussing women’s status as according to the viewpoint endorsed by Jehovah’s Witnesses with a person who is still active in that faith, whereas I, myself, left the fold many years ago. I told her that I left because fundamentalist faiths tends to treat women as inferior, i.e: “Be in subjection to your husband.” I told her that, as a woman, I could not stand for that. She told me that this was because men want respect from women, while women want love from men. She told me that if a woman gives respect to a man, he will give love to her. Since a woman wants and needs love more than respect, she is much happier in a subordinate position in marriage. I thought about it, and replied, “You know, if I had to choose, I think I would much more want a man’s respect, than his love.” And that is very true about me. Unfortunately, in my experience, I’ve had very little of either one. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/34 "2018-03-29T16:31:44Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate. Yes, but, love is the sweetest thing, what else on earth could ever bring, such happiness to everything, as love’s old story? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/35 "2018-03-29T16:42:09Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > … She told me that this was because men want respect from women, while women want love from men. She told me that if a woman gives respect to a man, he will give love to her. Since a woman wants and needs love more than respect, she is much happier in a subordinate position in marriage. > > I thought about it, and replied, “You know, if I had to choose, I think I would much more want a man’s respect, than his love.” … Unfortunately, in my experience, I’ve had very little of either one. It is not unheard of to get both from one guy. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/36 "2018-03-29T17:17:06Z")
Love is never having to say you’re sorry. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/37 "2018-03-29T17:24:04Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Love is never having to say you’re sorry. Marriage, OTOH… ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/38 "2018-03-29T19:19:58Z")
Love means praying for the end of time … ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/39 "2018-03-29T19:58:30Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate. I love chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378/40 "2018-03-29T22:13:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It is not unheard of to get both from one guy. Well, if you’ll tell me that one guy’s name, I’ll check him out. With my luck, he’s already taken. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-is-overrated/811378.md?page=3)