A Quote by Samuel Beckett

Love requited is a short circuit.

Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett
Irish - Novelist
April 13, 1906 - December 22, 1989

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

Ayn Rand

For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

Kathleen McGowan

I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

Lorrie Moore

Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised.

Kathleen Raine

You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Billy Bob Thornton

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

Maryanne Wolf

We love even when our love is not requited.

Mortimer Adler

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.

Violet Trefusis

Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold. This means that the circuit can become more or less developed depending on the particulars of the learner: e.g., instruction, culture, motivation, educational opportunity.

Maryanne Wolf

It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

Tom Brokaw

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

John Green

First and foremost, 'Call Me by Your Name' is a story about love, and first loves, and unrequited, and then, later, requited love.

Timothee Chalamet

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.

Howard Gordon

For many, love is a two-sided coin. It can strengthen or stifle, expand or enfeeble, perfect or pauperize. When love is returned, we soar. We are taken to heights unseen, where it delights, invigorates, and beautifies. When love is spurned, we feel crippled, disconsolate, and bereaved. Polish the coin and you will see only requited love on both sides. I was destined to love you and I will belong to you forever.