To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love.... - Woody Allen

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."

Tags

Share this quote

More quotes by Woody Allen

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic."