Love According to Realists
Love is worth as much as it costs.
Karol Bunsch
When we can't afford to love, we can always afford to envy.
Maria Dąbrowska
There are three things eternal: the eternal marker, eternal love, and eternal undulation. The most permanent of these is the marker.
Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
When one feels physical attraction, the impure passion for physical shapes, that is not love. Love is the desire of another's soul.
Stanislaw Dygat
Love fever is akin to smallpox - the earlier it develops, the less it takes its toll.
Aleksander Fredro
After all, love is suffering, and no idle trifle.
Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński
He loved her madly, so he forgot her gladly.
Tadeusz Gicgier
Love and hate are two sides of the same coin.
Witold Gombrowicz
Love is blind and therefore touches so intensely.
Manuela Gretkowska
Love is like coal: it hurts when it burns and stains when it simmers out.
Bolesław Szczęsny Herbaczewski
Respect and love are commodities that must be invested somehow. Thus, they are given out on credit to anyone.
Karol Irzykowski
Unreciprocated love is always the strongest.
Stefan Kisielewski
Love explains nothing, though it settles a lot.
Stefan Kisielewski
Love is a clumsily or carelessly painted banal setting, and it is only by momentary illumination with the spotlights of delusion that those endowed with gusto can bask in it.
Stefan Kisielewski
Burdened is he who loves, burdened he who loves not, most burdened of all he who loves and earns no favour.
Jan Kochanowski
Love is like ether. It can kill, but it can also... fizzle out.
Alfred Aleksander Konar
It is said that those who fall madly in love were already mad before.
Alfred Aleksander Konar
And love? ‘Tis but another addiction of youth, dangerous games, bewildering states of weightlessness.
Tadeusz Konwicki
Of course, love, like all mental illnesses, runs its course in varying degrees of severity, according to the character and internal capacity of the patient. It may range from a feverish state of courtship and flirtation to all out attacks of amorous frenzy.
Tadeusz Konwicki
Love is a poetic illusion, which, to be sustained, need not be poked with fingers like a bubble of soap, lest it turn into a drop of dirty water.
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
The fire of friendship is small but lasting – the fire of love is great but short-lived.
Ludwik Kropiński
It takes two people to love - not one, and not three.
Maria Kuncewiczowa
Love is a random arrangement of atoms.
Jalu Kurek
There are women so beautiful that an erection becomes inappropriate.
Kazimierz Kutz
"We always go back to our first love". Perhaps - but for ever different purposes.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The first sigh of love is the last sigh of reason.
Kornel Makuszyński
Rare is fire without smoke, and rarer still is love without trouble.
Wincenty Ignacy Marewicz
He who knows not love, has a happy life, enjoys a peaceful night, and a day without strife.
Adam Mickiewicz
Love can be known through suffering only.
Zofia Nałkowska
Love: an island of emotion surrounded by a sea of expense.
Leopold R. Nowak
Love is a physiological psychosis. A complete narrowing of cognitive and intellectual processes. A disturbance in consciousness. A dissociation of emotion and action. Sometimes incurable.
Barbara Rosiek
Love is that period when our fellow human of the opposite sex holds the same opinion of us as we do.
Magdalena Samozwaniec
Loving is a hard bondage, for it turns a free man into a slave.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Love without senses is a spear without iron, a chalice without wine.
Wladyslaw Syrokomla
Love gives the illusion of happiness if we do not analyse it.
Leszek Szeligowski
If you cannot have what you want, you have to want what you have.
Konrad Tom
What a great economy of time it is to fall in love at first sight.
Julian Tuwim
Romance is the dream of the man who is lonely, and loneliness the dream of the man who is in the midst of a romance.
Julian Tuwim
And you never know, when talking about love, whether the first one is the last or the last one is the first.
Jan Twardowski
The love that cannot be seen cannot obstruct a vision.
Jan Twardowski
To never love... - but then it is also not worth living! To love... - that is to agonize all your life.
Maria Wirtemberska
Love out of necessity is more or less the same as peace from a "position of strength". The permanence of both - identical.
Ignacy Włodek
Nothing moves a man more than the tears of the woman he begins to love, and nothing irritates him more than the tears of the woman he loves no more.
Maryla Wolska
Love is a pretty little box in which lies tucked away a carefully crafted bill.
Jan Chrysostom Zachariasiewicz
Love is a phenomenon as rare as genius.
Emil Zegadłowicz
There is cherishing love, there is passionate love, there is fantasy love. The first is explained in life by holiness, the second by misfortune, the third by sin.
Narcyza Żmichowska