Love

[Anonymous No.8416224]

What is a book that will make me believe in love?
I wish to desire love and feel more accepting of affection after reading it.

[Anonymous No.8416232]

>>8416224
war and peace
then it'll crush you and make you hate everything

[Anonymous No.8416261]

>>8416224
>believe in love?
Start with the Greeks

[Anonymous No.8416269]

Sappho

And how you laugh your charming laugh. Why it
makes my heart flutter within my breast

[Anonymous No.8416270]

>>8416232
wtf
it's supposed to do the opposite. war and peace is the singlehandledly most empathic book i've ever read. how can it make you hate anything? it should fill you with compassion for all human kind

[Anonymous No.8416294]

>>8416269
>literature men will never understand

daily reminder lesbian love is the purest of love and you savage men will never EVER get to experience it

[Anonymous No.8416355]

I finished The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and that gave me that feeling.

[Anonymous No.8416460]

>>8416224
>Pride and Prejudice

[Anonymous No.8416489]

The scarlet pimpernel

[Anonymous No.8417577]

>>8416294
I think you just proved the opposite.

EXHIBIT A: You came into a thread where someone reached out to understand love, and, instead of using your purportedly pure depths of love to enlighten and enrich us all, attempted to shit on everyone in a delusional, self-congratulatory, sexist rant.

You do not understand love. You understand lust, fleeting passion, and sex as a psychological anesthetic.

[Anonymous No.8417584]

>>8416224
I dunno, m8. It's kind of hard to inject love into an emotionless 4channer

[Anonymous No.8417596]

The Carnal Prayer Mat

[Anonymous No.8417603]

My diary desuu

[Anonymous No.8417607]

>>8417577
3/10 i replied

[Anonymous No.8418348]

>>8417577
/thread

[Anonymous No.8418374]

There was a short story written on wattpad of all things by MostlyHetero a while back called "Michael and the Sex Goblin."

It's quite the romantic novel, but also eye opening in the sense that it gives a very unique definition to what love is. It's a roller coaster it's a new beginning, that initial spark to a passionate flame, then the flare of flame followed by the classic interruption. The ending is the initial spark all over again in a different manner. Riveting tale. Absolutely riveting. If that doesn't make you believe in, desire, and accept that exciting beast known as love then I don't know what will.

[Anonymous No.8418385]

Love is an illusion, a misunderstanding.
Mutual love is a mutual misunderstanding of being mutually loved.
And engagement is a vow to not wake up for your whole life from that misunderstanding.

This is all you need to know on the topic of love.

[Anonymous No.8418390]

>>8418374
I hate you. I can't believe you took the time to package that piece of shit so nicely. I read it, I'll probably read the other things he has. But you're still an ass.

[Anonymous No.8418393]

Check out D.H. Lawrence.

[Anonymous No.8418398]

>>8418390
Ah, the story of Darius. That's a good story, be sure to read Darius before you read The Robbery. A lot of people make the mistake of reading them out of order. Incredible short reads. Perfect for the man on the go looking for a bit more in every day life. The Robbery picks up on where "Darius" left off (somewhat) and really swings it home with another romance story in The Robbery.

[Anonymous No.8418414]

>>8418398
Gayest shit ever written.

[Anonymous No.8418438]

>>8418414
Love knows no genders, friend.

[Anonymous No.8419042]

Stendhal - Love (De l'Amour)

[Anonymous No.8419049]

>>8417577
put that dyke in her place anon.

[Anonymous No.8419166]

The Suffering of Young Werther

[Anonymous No.8419377]

>>8418385
>Love isnt real
>love is just a chemical attraction based on biology interpreted by the brain
>no that sensation can't be worth anything!!
Wew lad sorry mommy kissed you too much or to little

[Anonymous No.8419416]

>>8416224
Love isnt something you get from a book m8 you have to experience it.

[Anonymous No.8419457]

>>8416224
Love ruined my life, I have no self-control whatsoever and since the first time I fell in love all I do is attempt to find girls to love me, it is an addiction with a terrible success rate and you have very little control unlike something like alcohol which you know will always be there

I literally can't imagine any state of being except being in love or attempting to find it, life before it was so completely feeling-less in comparison

[Anonymous No.8419472]

love is shit and a sham

[Anonymous No.8419483]

>>8419166


>suffering
>not sorrows

pleb.

[Anonymous No.8419557]

Is love between people of two different races truly possible, or is it merely a false construct created by the Jews as part of their plan to miscegenate the Aryan race out of existence?

[Anonymous No.8419611]

>>8419557
Why are jews so mean to everybody?

[Anonymous No.8419683]

>>8419611
Probably because they are the Synagogue of Satan.

[Anonymous No.8420075]

>>8416294
>you savage men will never EVER get to experience it

Will the feminist meme ever die? Ya'll got your rights ages ago; let go of the past and do that independence thing you all nag about.

[Anonymous No.8420162]

>>8416224
Find a lover anon. Books can't replicate only enhance.

[Anonymous No.8421393]

>>8418438
>Things modern masculinity doesn't understand
I hate this "dudebro" culture so god dammed much.

[Anonymous No.8421395]

>>8419557
I know you're trolling but I've actually heard people say this kind of dumb shit, out loud, in earnest. How can someone be so stupid?

[Anonymous No.8421408]

If you've never been in love, it skews your perception of what love is, when you read fiction involving it, because you think that the passionate dedication and "worship" aspects of love are the primary aspects. Those are secondary aspects of the actual primary aspect of love, which is the feeling that some one person is your best friend and a qualitatively amazing person that you can't believe you managed to find in a world full of "decent I guess" people.

Good love is a lot like having a best-friend-4-lyfe kind of person, a feeling that you two were meant to be allied with each other against the world, and the privilege and pleasure of being completely intimate with them. They can know all your foibles and weird shit, know the real you, and still accept you and love you, and you get to do the same for them.

That's pretty much it. Once you've had it, or something like it, you can tell which relationships had it and which didn't, and you can feel bad for people who don't realise that they are dating for status or "fun" without actually feeling love.

[Anonymous No.8421566]

Love evolved to make men stick around long enough to raise kids, this is why women cannot feel love.

[Anonymous No.8421579]

>>8421566
Women can feel love to kids though.

[Anonymous No.8421676]

>>8417577
Hear hear!

[Anonymous No.8421682]

>>8416224
Anna Karenina

[Anonymous No.8421892]

what is love?

[Anonymous No.8421955]

>>8421566

>he's never been loved by a woman and concludes it cannot happen

How terribly sad and banal.

[Anonymous No.8421960]

All you need is INFINITE JEST

[Anonymous No.8421961]

>>8421892
Baby don't hurt me

[Anonymous No.8421962]

>>8419377

>Water isn't real, it's just hydrogen and oxygen atoms!

HURR FUGGEN DURR

[Anonymous No.8421967]

>>8419483

>Not Leiden
>Implying you'll ever appreciate as much as a thousandth of Goethe's genius without knowing the german language

[Anonymous No.8421975]

>>8418374
I just googled wattpad. Is this worth using for an aspiring writer to get feedback? Is there often good content?

[Anonymous No.8421980]

>>8421975
It's the site of choice for /r/writing! You know it's good!

[Anonymous No.8422075]

>>8419483
>Leiden.. not suffering..
Agreed sorrow sounds better, but suffering is way more accurate.
.t a german

[Anonymous No.8422339]

Read some of Schopenhauer's shit.

You have to be full of yearning for what should be in order to disavow what is so thoroughly.

[Anonymous No.8422403]

>>8416224
like with any question, start with the greeks. plato's symposium specifically

[Anonymous No.8422429]

>>8421566
Come out of the closet already

[Anonymous No.8422454]

>>8421961
no more

[Anonymous No.8422645]

>think I've found the one
>she's a lesbian
>feel like such an idiot

Love is dead

[Anonymous No.8422675]

>>8421408
Agreed.

I've only been in love once, and it was amazing. We could talk about anything, constantly, from sunrise to sunset, it felt like we could be completely and totally honest and explore the deepest parts of our psyche. It sounds ridiculous, but I could *be myself* with her. Just being able to exist together as two human beings. Without the stupid fucking masks society forces us to wear. That was the best thing.

God I'm so lonely. brb suicide.

[Anonymous No.8422683]

>>8422667
>I could *be myself* with her
as if there were no real distinction between myself and my loved one, one person in two bodies
I've just fallen in love recently

[Anonymous No.8422693]

The Bible. I'm not even joking.

[Anonymous No.8422694]

>>8422645
Think I've found the one
She's in love with another guy
Try to be al least her friend
Treats me like total shit as a friend

[Anonymous No.8422696]

>>8422693
>christposting unironically

[Anonymous No.8422715]

>>8422683
That's why The Ecstasy by John Donne is one of my favourite poems

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44099

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisHhIRihMY is the song which also encapsulates what I think love is.

[Anonymous No.8422717]

That's why The Ecstasy by John Donne is one of my favourite poems

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44099

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMeZCPbM6bA is the song which also encapsulates what I think love is.

*accidentally posted another vid lol

[Anonymous No.8422719]

>>8417577
Hahahahaha! That reminds me of how the swedish fagette Mian Lodalen dun goofed in one of her columns.

Prejudice: Dykes don't have humor.
Rebuttal: "When I lived in a collective 1987-1993, gosh darn how we laughed."

Fantastic! She has the space and time to write something really funny, but instead her proof is a claim that dykes has laughed in group.

[Anonymous No.8422722]

>>8422717
for fuck's sake, meant to quote >>8422683

[Anonymous No.8422793]

>>8421892

Love is bourgeois Realpolitik

[Anonymous No.8422821]

>tfw Love is death

[Anonymous No.8422847]

>>8417577
dubs for love!

and I would recommend: What is to be done?

>love has no anxiety

Chernyvsky made me believe in love

[Anonymous No.8422860]

>>8422717
>mfw velvet underground
10/10
her eyes are brown though, nvm your first vid

[Anonymous No.8422923]

>>8417577
>he took the bait like the fucking moron he is

[Anonymous No.8422943]

>>8422675
>Just being able to exist together as two human beings.
And as we're on a literature board, the ultimate book recommendation on love is Anna Karenina. Not the Vronsky and Anna parts, but the love of Levin and Kitty. If you haven't read it yet, do so asap. It describes the same feeling you mentioned, even more. They'll not just become to be able to exist together, Levin finds a whole new integrity of existence, safety, redemption from existential angst through Kitty's love as Kitty finds her safe, solid place in life by being a such place for Levin. They not just exist together, even more, their separate existences fade into a new common existence.

[Anonymous No.8422950]

>tfw you will never find true love
>tfw want to die

[Anonymous No.8422968]

katawa shoujo

[Anonymous No.8422972]

>>8416224
I've recently read 'the history of love' by Nicole Krauss

It's a book about everlasting love. It will give you feels, make you laugh and give you that hope that everything will turn out fine in the end. A solid 4/5 imo

[Anonymous No.8423032]

Death in Venice

[Anonymous No.8423043]

give me a book that conveys love like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDVnjCwCYCs

[Anonymous No.8423069]

>Wuthering Heights

[Anonymous No.8423074]

>>8421408

t. J. Green

[Anonymous No.8423108]

>>8416224
Anna Karenina.

[Anonymous No.8423142]

>>8423108
>866 pages

Is it worth it?

[Anonymous No.8423149]

>>8423142
Yes.

[Anonymous No.8423179]

>>8423108
What about War & Peace? The kindle version is 1800 pages long and I could read either that or Gravity's Rainbow this summer

[Anonymous No.8423248]

>>8423043
>tfw just learned to play this song

[Anonymous No.8423310]

Harry Potter

I love you Pansy. Why couldn't you be real ;_;

[Anonymous No.8423468]

love and eroticism by octavio paz

[Anonymous No.8423488]

>>8416224
Anna Karenina desu

[Anonymous No.8423704]

>>8417577
>proved the opposite
No, it doesn't. Not wanting to share or help others to understand pure love doesn't mean you can't feel love.

[Anonymous No.8423728]

>>8423179
>this summer
summer's over nigga

[Anonymous No.8423879]

Popping in to say that The Persian Boy by Mary Renault is probably the most romantic novel I've ever read. It gave me hope that love is real.

[Anonymous No.8424252]

>>8422950

[Anonymous No.8424397]

>>8423248
tfw it single handedly made me believe that love was real after being single my whole life coming from a divorced family

[Anonymous No.8424475]

>tfw never had a gf
>tfw virgin

I just want someone to want me bros
why does it seem so easy for everyone else

[Anonymous No.8424478]

>>8416224
John Berger's To the Wedding

[Anonymous No.8424495]

>>8424475
Work on yourself first.

Read this book, it'll help: https://www.amazon.com/Surrogate-Re-Parenting-K-Right/dp/1530286727/

[Anonymous No.8424716]

>>8421393
That's why I appreciate MostlyHetero's writings. Isabelleronan and Lechnabaram are also popular users on wattpad that have really nice works of writing.

[Anonymous No.8425406]

>>8416224
I highly recommend Sadhana by Rabindranath Thakura
it´s more on the universal aspects of love (see how much everyone is like you so you can love them) and more philosophical but still nice
Also, the themes of self-expression and freedom are interesting

[Anonymous No.8425414]

>>8424475
just chill bro
the harder you struggle the harder it gets
also be realistic and think about if you would be someone you could love, and if not, how to change that.
A lot of people in your situation get bitter or try too hard wich both doesn´t help in getting a gf

[Anonymous No.8425434]

of all things, Lemony Snickett's Letters to Beatrice captures that giddiness brilliantly.

Remains of the Day will prepare you for a lifetime of barely supressed sorrow and regret

Chronic City made me ache for love, not a simulcrum of it.

hope that helps. now i'm here lads: i made out with a qt i'd had a crush on for ages but thought was a lesbian but she's been kind of cold since but she also had the best breasts i've ever seen and perfect ass and brilliant person and yes what should i do cheers

[Anonymous No.8425440]

>tfw full of love
>tfw just want someone to feel even half as strongly as I do about them
>tfw I want her back but she hates me

[Anonymous No.8425473]

>>8416294
>women
>capable of love
lol
just lol

[Anonymous No.8425537]

>>8416224
My diary tbqhf

[Anonymous No.8425572]

>>8416294
>lesbians
>not the plebbest-tier of "romance" possible

It's erotica (at best) written to appeal to men with the emotional maturity level of 13 year olds.

[Anonymous No.8425594]

>>8421955

Guess you have something I don't. Money, height, status.. In any case the women wanted those and not you.

[Anonymous No.8425943]

>>8423728
I don't go back to uni till late September so I have enough time for a few more books

[Anonymous No.8426093]

>current year
>not fulfilling your emotional needs through a devoted online relationship

[Anonymous No.8426216]

>>8425440

same
i fall for the tough cookie type and they reject me everytime
why live

[Anonymous No.8426740]

>>8425440
>>tfw just want someone to feel even half as strongly as I do about them

[Anonymous No.8427421]

>>8419377
Jesus, are you retarded?
Love isn't real, since it's an abstract, but it's by coming together that love becomes true. As all illusions, if you believe it to be true, it becomes true. But if you forget too much that it's an illusion, it can break you.

Don't add words to the message if you don't even fucking understand it.

[Anonymous No.8427451]

>>8425572
>butthurt man lashes out at the uncomfortable truth

[Anonymous No.8427467]

i hate love desu, it can never be perfect because nobody, not even the happiest couple, will love each other equally

i've been unlucky (imo) in that in all of my significant relationships i've been the one that likes the other person more and thus powerless

if a friend ever complains about an obsessed girl or someone being needy or whatever i shut them down at lightning speed because being the obsessed one is so much worse