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"We like to think that love is this all powerful, warm and utterly beautiful emotion. In truth, things aren’t like that. Like weapons and magic, it can be used to protect the ones we love and even help us through hardship but at the same time it can hurt others. There’s so much we lose sight of when it gets too strong. Yet no matter how strong it is, there are just some things it can’t overcome. How ironic."
Homura Akemi: ...A curse isn't what's tainting [my Soul Gem].
Kyubey: What is?
Homura: Something you can't understand, Incubator. It is the pinnacle of all human emotion. More passionate than hope, much deeper than despair... love.
Kyubey: What is?
Homura: Something you can't understand, Incubator. It is the pinnacle of all human emotion. More passionate than hope, much deeper than despair... love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: I, for the sake of reviving the one I love, will fullfill the contract of death.
[...]
Akutagawa Ryuunosuke: You said: "It is all for the sake of the revival of the one I love". Does that mean it is all for that women? The one I defeated in a fight to death at the port?
Nathaniel Hawthorne: You... Who are you?
[...]
Akutagawa Ryuunosuke: You said: "It is all for the sake of the revival of the one I love". Does that mean it is all for that women? The one I defeated in a fight to death at the port?
Nathaniel Hawthorne: You... Who are you?
— Bungo Stray Dogs, chapter 46
Fan Works
She couldn't save him from herself.
— Fishsticks
, summing up Eridan and Feferi's relationship in one line
, summing up Eridan and Feferi's relationship in one lineThe demon stared into her eyes. "I gave myself this burden, my love," She smiled, "I did it for you. You could do nothing to change my mind."
Misato: I'm the fool. And I've become a monster.
Kaji: You made hard choices. And you had your responsibilities.
Misato: So much blood, Kaji. I have so much blood on my hands.
Kaji: But you knew had to, [...] You had a reason.
Misato: Everything I did, I did it for Shinji. I wanted to... I needed to see him grow up. To have a family. A chance to be happy. I needed that...
Kaji: You made hard choices. And you had your responsibilities.
Misato: So much blood, Kaji. I have so much blood on my hands.
Kaji: But you knew had to, [...] You had a reason.
Misato: Everything I did, I did it for Shinji. I wanted to... I needed to see him grow up. To have a family. A chance to be happy. I needed that...
— HERZ, chapter 9
Yui: Why?
Gendo: Because... I had to free you. [...] It... it was my fault Unit-01 trapped you.
Yui: Naoko set it in motion.
Gendo: I should have known. Once you were trapped, I had to set you free.
Yui: And you thought the Third Impact would free me. That doesn't explain why you had to devastate your son's life. Seele would have given you the Impact.
Gendo: I couldn't let the old men control it. I had to make sure everything happened correctly.
Yui: Why?
Gendo: If it failed.... [...] Then we could never be together.
Yui: Because I would never be free of Unit-01?
Gendo: Because... because without Instrumentality... we could never be together.
Yui: You truly think that?
Gendo: I have too much blood on my hands for it to be otherwise.
Voice: And yet, [...] in your attempt you only made the blood worse.
Gendo: Because... I had to free you. [...] It... it was my fault Unit-01 trapped you.
Yui: Naoko set it in motion.
Gendo: I should have known. Once you were trapped, I had to set you free.
Yui: And you thought the Third Impact would free me. That doesn't explain why you had to devastate your son's life. Seele would have given you the Impact.
Gendo: I couldn't let the old men control it. I had to make sure everything happened correctly.
Yui: Why?
Gendo: If it failed.... [...] Then we could never be together.
Yui: Because I would never be free of Unit-01?
Gendo: Because... because without Instrumentality... we could never be together.
Yui: You truly think that?
Gendo: I have too much blood on my hands for it to be otherwise.
Voice: And yet, [...] in your attempt you only made the blood worse.
— The One I Love Is..., "Let the World Burn / One Dream at a Time" side-story
"This will only take a moment, Beauty."
"You said you weren't going to hurt anyone! Nath, you don't want to do the whole akuma thing, remember?"
His smile falters. "It sounds to me like you're on his side. After everything he did, you still don't want me to kill him."
She stumbles back. "Whoa, who the hell said anything about KILLING anyone?"
His face darkens. "I'll kill anyone who so much as looks at you."
"You said you weren't going to hurt anyone! Nath, you don't want to do the whole akuma thing, remember?"
His smile falters. "It sounds to me like you're on his side. After everything he did, you still don't want me to kill him."
She stumbles back. "Whoa, who the hell said anything about KILLING anyone?"
His face darkens. "I'll kill anyone who so much as looks at you."
— Le Papillon Rising, a Miraculous Ladybug fic
, a Miraculous Ladybug fic Film
"The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all."
— Lucille Sharpe to Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak
Langdon: Come on. Don't-don't do this, Sienna, don't. You'll be murdering innocents.
Sienna: Yes, people will die, a lot of them, but the crisis will be averted. It's what nature demands. The problem won't just be slowed down, it'll be solved. Permanently.
Langdon: Killing billions to save lives? That's the logic of tyrants.
Sienna: For a greater good, humanity...
Langdon: Genius does not come with extra rights!
Sienna: No, it comes with the responsibility to take action when others won't!
Langdon: You wanna do something? Fine! Then scream at the top of your lungs and invent and lead!
Sienna: If you love humanity, if you love this planet, you'd do anything to save it.
Langdon: The greatest sins in human history have been committed in the name of love. No one will look on this act and call it love.
Sienna: They'll be alive. What does it matter what they say about us?
Sienna: Yes, people will die, a lot of them, but the crisis will be averted. It's what nature demands. The problem won't just be slowed down, it'll be solved. Permanently.
Langdon: Killing billions to save lives? That's the logic of tyrants.
Sienna: For a greater good, humanity...
Langdon: Genius does not come with extra rights!
Sienna: No, it comes with the responsibility to take action when others won't!
Langdon: You wanna do something? Fine! Then scream at the top of your lungs and invent and lead!
Sienna: If you love humanity, if you love this planet, you'd do anything to save it.
Langdon: The greatest sins in human history have been committed in the name of love. No one will look on this act and call it love.
Sienna: They'll be alive. What does it matter what they say about us?
— Inferno (Film)
"Who could imagine using the promised Key early, leading all of your disciples to slaughter, was all for nothing more than some woman?"
Literature
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait,
On purpose laid to make the taker mad:
Mad in pursuit, and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait,
On purpose laid to make the taker mad:
Mad in pursuit, and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
— William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 129"
"It is in the grandeur of Eros that the seeds of danger are concealed...For Eros, speaking with that very grandeur and displaying that very transcendence of self, may urge to evil as well as to good...The love which leads to cruel and perjured unions, even to suicide-pacts and murder, is not likely to be wandering lust or idle sentiment. It may well be Eros in all his splendour: heart-breakingly sincere; ready for every sacrifice except renunciation."
"So many terrible things are done for love, For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, and that right willingly."
— Queen Mab to Harry Dresden, The Dresden Files: Changes
Live-Action TV
"There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his mummy. And this little boy can."
— The Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Doctor Dances"
"I'll kill the King, Ned Stark, the whole bloody lot of them until you and I are the only people left in this world."
— Jamie Lannister to his sister Cersei, Game of Thrones
"It's our oldest, deadliest impulse, the need to protect our own at the expense of any other living thing. And we give that impulse such a nice name, don't we? Hyde... is Love - and Love is a psychopath."
— Sophia, Jekyll
"She's a woman who's had her heart broken. And that can make you do unspeakable things."
— Regina Mills, Once Upon a Time
"The things I do for love."
— Jaime Lannister, A Song of Ice and Fire, right before pushing an eight-year-old boy out a window.
"Bitterness is a paralytic. Love is a much more vicious motivator."
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, "A Study In Pink"
Music
Someone told me
Love would all save us
But, how can that be
Look what love gave us
A world full of killing
And blood spilling
That world never came
Love would all save us
But, how can that be
Look what love gave us
A world full of killing
And blood spilling
That world never came
— Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott, "Hero"
I'll kill them all to save my own
— "10th Man Down", Nightwish
My fantasy has turned to madness
And all my goodness has turned to badness
My need to possess you has consumed my soul
My life is trembling, I have no control
And all my goodness has turned to badness
My need to possess you has consumed my soul
My life is trembling, I have no control
— "Obsession", Animotion
Theatre
"Oh, what an evil power love has in people's lives!"
— Medea, Medea
"Your love died many years ago. But my love could not die. Neither could it live. It grew into an evil thing, like me, like the pallid mushrooms in this wood, and the blind, twisted features of the roots, all overgrown by my golden millions."
— Claire Zachanassian, The Visit
Video Games
Noah: Isn't there a trace left inside you? Of your old feelings? Because if there was, even a little-
N: Feelings, you say? You dare... My feelings... My feelings have never changed, they're the same as they've always been! They're for you, Mio! The time I had with you meant everything to me! But now... it's all gone... If she truly is gone, I'll have to redo it all! Watch me! Rewind our clocks, back to the start! Noah... My long shadow... You have stolen her away from me... I will extinguish you, and take her back! Mio is MINE! She's not yours, she's mine! You are nothing. She belongs only to ME!
N: Feelings, you say? You dare... My feelings... My feelings have never changed, they're the same as they've always been! They're for you, Mio! The time I had with you meant everything to me! But now... it's all gone... If she truly is gone, I'll have to redo it all! Watch me! Rewind our clocks, back to the start! Noah... My long shadow... You have stolen her away from me... I will extinguish you, and take her back! Mio is MINE! She's not yours, she's mine! You are nothing. She belongs only to ME!
Webcomics
I love you the way a knife loves a heart
the way a bomb loves a crowd
the way your mother warned you about, essentially.
the way a bomb loves a crowd
the way your mother warned you about, essentially.
Web Original
Chris: I think what they’re getting at is that Lex learns that the only way he can save what he cares about is through the unrelenting pursuit of power, but I think throwing his love for Lana in there is just crazy complicating things.
David: I think he ends up marrying Lana in the real world anyway, too.
Chris: Seriously?
David: Yeah, but she does it just to betray his trust and destroy him or something. It's all pretty ridiculous.
Chris: Wow.
David: I think he ends up marrying Lana in the real world anyway, too.
Chris: Seriously?
David: Yeah, but she does it just to betray his trust and destroy him or something. It's all pretty ridiculous.
Chris: Wow.
— Chris Sims and David Uzumeri on Smallville ("Lexmas")
Smallville ("Lexmas")She knew that she was breaking the law, she knew the government was going to come down on her, she knew she was hurting Fate, those officers, and others she might have attacked before. And she didn't care. Because she was going to do anything to get her daughter back. That view, in certain circumstances, is the height of valor. Here, it's the depths of villainy. Funny, that.
Web Video
"So basically, comic books teach us that love ultimately leads to death, destruction, and the devil. So in other words, love no one. Ever."
— Linkara, Atop the Fourth Wall, "Top 15 Worst Heroes Becoming Villains"
Western Animation
"Love is suspicious, love is needy, love is fearful, love is greedy, there is no great love without great jealousy."
— Bender, Futurama
"I am not a villain! All I wanted... was love."
"Kill everything you see. Kill them all! And once Targoviste has been turned into a graveyard for my love, go forth into the country. Go now! Go to all the cities of Wallachia: Arges! Severin! Gresit! Chilia! Enisara! Go now, and kill! Kill for my love! Kill, for the only true love I ever knew. Kill, for the endless lifetime of hate before me..."
— Dracula, Castlevania (2017)
"Sylas, I broke the world for us."
— Lady Delilah Briarwood, Critical Role/The Legend of Vox Machina
"That’s the thing about friends, isn’t it? The more you love them, the more it hurts when they go. Allow me to demonstrate. [Drops Sprig]"
— King Andrias Leviathan, Amphibia, “True Colors”
Tayū: How did this terrible creature come to be? Hate alone was not enough. It took one more ingredient: love...poisoned by betrayal...to bring so much bloodshed and woe."
— Blue Eye Samurai, "The Tale of Ronin and the Bride"
