Love, by Tim Burton & Others

How much time do we spend thinking, writing, reading, experiencing, seeing, crying, wondering, wanting, dreaming, disliking, hating, craving, visiting, avoiding, love? 

I suppose it's everywhere and there's a lot to be said and dealt with it. I suppose, myself, that I talk - perhaps more think and write - about it too much. But, through the twisted mind of Tim Burton - concluding further thoughts on him - he has dealt with love in very different ways. The relationships of people such as Ichabod Crane and Katrina (Sleepy Hollow), Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett (obvious) and so on. Love is what we make it and is a very different thing for each of us. 

And, in ode to Mr. Burton, here's some great minds speaking on love:

'True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome… except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. And, as is true of any other strong and addicting drug, true first love is dangerous.'

- Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

'Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.'

- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman #64. 

'So, miss me. Send me love and light every time you think of me... Then drop it. It won't last forever. Nothing does.'

- Liz Gilbert, Eat Pray Love

'Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.'

- Aristotle

'Immature love says: "I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you."'

- Erich Fromm

'Love is what we make it. It can be cruel and sad or happy and wonderful. We make it want we want and fight for it when it means something.'

- Anonymous