They did not have an inkling yet of the abysmal depths of a woman’s emotions, nor of the terrible seriousness of the dark forces of nature which appear in life along with such inexplicable contradictions, and to which we give the name love.

– Ferdinand von Saar

And love, love that will once more have risen over us like a divine dawn infinitely mysterious and sad, will spread out before our grief something of its own vast and strange horizons, something of its own bewitching desolation…

– Proust

Love is a nightmare – a vile dream. Woman finds her true happiness in acquiring supernatural powers.

– Madame Blavatsky

It is quite possible that Neanderthal man had mythology as well as ritual, since according to one view the eating of brain matter is likely to be the repetition of some mythical act.

– N. K. Sandars