History Quotes / WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove

-> '''[[PlayerCharacter Shepard]]''': That doesn't explain why ''you'' used a piece of ''my'' armor to fix yourself.\\
'''Legion''': ... There was a hole.\\
'''Shepard''': But why didn't you fix it sooner, or with something else?\\
'''Legion''': ... No data available.
-->-- A conversation between Shepard and Legion regarding the latter's armor, '''VideoGame/MassEffect2'''

->"This concept of "[[BabyTalk wuv]]" confuses and '''''infuriates''''' us!"
-->-- '''Lrrr''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

->''[[MemeticMutation What is love?]]''\\
''[[LoveHurts Baby don't hurt me]]''\\
''[[MemeticMutation don't hurt me]]''\\
''[[LoveHurts no more...]]''
-->-- '''Haddaway,''' "What is Love"

->"You humans throw around that word so casually... tell me then: What is a 'heart?'\\
If I tore a hole in your chest, would I see it? If I split open your skull, will it be ''there''?"

->'''Azula:''' The thing I don't understand is ''[[EvilCannotComprehendGood why]].'' Why would you [[HeelFaceTurn do it?]] You know the consequences.\\
[[spoiler: '''Mai:''' I guess you just don't know people as well as you think you do. You miscalculated. [[MachiavelliWasWrong I love Zuko more than I fear you.]]]]
-->-- '''''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'''''

->"He harbored an infatuation towards her, [[BenevolentAI she]] knew. She didn’t know if she returned those feelings. Her programming suggested she ''could'' love, but she didn’t know how to recognize the feeling. Anything she read spoke of butterflies in one’s stomach, a rapid heartbeat, a feeling of electricity crackling on body contact. Biological things. She could admit she was fond of him in a way she wasn’t fond of anyone else. She recognized that she was willing to overlook his faults in a way she shouldn’t."
-->--'''Dragon''', ''Literature/{{Worm}}''

->'''CG:''' IT'S REALLY WEIRD.
->'''CG:''' THIS HUMAN EMOTION CALLED FRIENDSHIP.
->'''EB:''' friendship isn't an emotion fucknuts.
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''

->'''Mikhail:''' Aren't families and strangers the same thing? Where is the line between those you love and those you don't?\\
'''Kiri:''' To begin with...you love them?
-->-- ''Manga/WildRose''

->"I tell you, that's impossible! It just can't happen! Eva-san's automatons are robots with their anima magically ensouled! Did you ''hear'' me just then?! "Ensouled!" How unscientific is that?! Of all things - love!! Love, the one emotion that defies all rational thought and explanation!! Am I to become a philosopher, then? Am I to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of the human condition?! For an artificial intelligence to even ''experience'' such a thing - to fall into the realm of the ''subjective'' rather than the ''objective'' - that can lead only to one, inevitable conclusion - that Chachamaru has become ''self-aware!'' When one can monitor one's internal thought patterns with an 'inner eye' - that is self-awareness! We're talking ''meta-consciousness'' here! There's no scientific rationale for ''that!!'' Chachamaru was never ''intended'' to develop such a thing... then again - then again - when it comes to ''emotions'', who can say what is or ''isn't'' rational?! To be ''human'' is to have ''emotions'', and to have emotions is to have ''love''. And, once there's ''love'', hey, why not throw ''reproductive endocrinology'' into the mix! I mean, why not, right?! And ''reproduction'' means ''death'' - which is all well and good if we're talking about ''replicants'', but we're not - we're talking about ''robots''! Robots don't have emotion - they just ''can't''. Or could it be that - maybe, just maybe! - it's only the ghost of an emotion, generated by her auto-learning program...? Still - even so - from a strictly ''methodological'' standpoint - it's all too bloody ''subjective'' for a scientist to wrap her mind around, don't you think? Science is absolute!! It's... ohmigawd, what am I ''saying'', it sounds like I've ''given up!'' This isn't good - it's ''not good'', I tell you! - Since ''when'' has the lack of an ''easy answer'' been an excuse to... For what did I sell ''my soul'' to science if not to ''answer'' those very same ''hard questions?!'' Was it the magic based power system that Eva-san gave me which caused an unforeseen side-effect on her systems?! No. ''No!'' I can't accept that. That's just another ''easy answer'' - that's what ''that'' is!! Then again, there is that brother-sister team at M.I.T. that supposedly engineered an artificial intelligence capable of independent emotion, so ''maybe''..."

-> '''T.E.C.:''' Happiness? Fun? I have definitions for these words, but... My programming is insufficient. I am a perfect computer, there should be nothing I cannot comprehend.\\
'''Peach:''' 'Comprehend' love? [[DontThinkFeel Love's not something you comprehend. It's something you feel]].\\
'''T.E.C.:''' .........Princess Peach, will you teach me to feel this thing you call 'love?'
-->-- ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''

'''Peach''': Wait, you don't know what love is? Love…how do I explain? Love-\\

'''Peach''': ''NO''. Love tells you when you want to be with a person forever. It makes you feel happy just to see that person happy, smiling…having fun.\\

'''Zelda''': Are you kidding? We're just getting started! Oh, you'll never hear the end of this one…my power switch is set to on and more on!\\
'''Peach''': You're on moron all right…

->"They make it look so easy... connecting with another human being. It's like no one told them it's the hardest thing in the world."
-->-- '''Dexter:''', ''Series/{{Dexter}} (Season 5 Episode 12)''

->'''Leela:''' It's amazing how your people fall in love so quickly here!\\
'''Zoidberg:''' ''Love?'' That word is unknown here. I'm simply looking for a female swollen with eggs to accept my genetic material.\\
'''Fry:''' You and me both brother!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?"

-->--'''Basic law of the Foreign Service''', ''Literature/{{Foreigner}}''

->''I want to know what love is''\\
''I want you to show me''

->"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope."
-->-- '''HK-47''', ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''

->"Love? What's that? Does it taste good?"
-->--'''Alice''', ''Roleplay/OurAvatarsAreInARoomTogether''

->"Oh, Arnold, what is this thing called love? What is this crazy little emotion that makes our stomachs turn all topsy-turvy, our knees buckle? What is this wacky thing that makes us feel attraction for one person, and total repulsion for another?"

->"[[EmpathicWeapon This sword]] possesses by using people's love. But I cannot love."
-->--'''[[TheWoobie Anri Sonohara]]''', ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''.

->''I'm just here to find the reason\\
You're at the top of my lungs when I sing.''
-->-- "Here's To Us", by '''[=RocketRocketShip=]'''

->''Competing for her was out of the question. He wasn’t human. Their concept of “romantic love” was fundamentally about mating, wasn’t it? Something of which he was both incapable and completely undesirous. So why this burning jealousy? It was jealousy, not envy, for he felt he was losing something that had previously been his: the right to be foremost in her affections.''

->''Did he love her? he wondered. It wasn’t the first time he’d wondered this, but there was an urgency to it, now. He didn’t know what love was. How could he? He believed he knew what Christian love was. He cherished it. To love one another through the love of God. The communication of souls past the barriers of flesh and space. Removal of the masks placed on us by nature. Turning away from the shadows on Plato’s cave wall to actually face one another. That kind of love, Paul understood.''

->''But the love in the Song of Songs? He could know nothing of that. It was completely specific to the human experience, and the reading of that book only served to remind him how alien, how unknowable these beings were.''

->''He agonized over his passion for her. He agonized over the nature of his passion for her. Was it love? It seemed the most ill-defined word in English. More sensible Earth languages like Greek had different words for the different types of love. He loved everything about her. Even her appearance, now. He knew full well that a man seeing her would see a dimension to her beauty that he would never comprehend; but to him, her form was one of amazing, alien beauty. The roundness, the smallness, the quickness of her; the darkness of her hair, the brownness of her skin—where years ago he’d found the human form repellant, he now perceived beauty in hers because it was her form; she was herself, unique among all mankind, unique in all the cosmos.''

->''He wanted desperately to believe that even if sex were a useful aid toward spiritual union, that it was not an absolutely necessary one. After all, among promiscuous humans, it seemed to actually be a hindrance to that end; and for all their liaisons, such people seemed terribly lonely.'' Oh yes, Paul, and you speak from such experience, don’t you? ''he scolded himself.''

-->--''Literature/AlienInASmallTown''

->'''Quark:''' Ah, but [[PlantAliens as a plant]], [[TheSpock you can never love.]]
->'''Ficus:''' Yes, but as an animal, you must endure the [[LoveHurts pain of love]].
->'''Quark:''' That's true, Ficus, but the pain of love is what makes love so endearing.
->'''Ficus:''' Following your logic, Commander, the pain of a toothache would make a toothache endearing. The more painful, the more endearing.
->'''Quark:''' ''[[CaptainsLog Starnote]] -- I've just argued over the concept of love with a plant...and lost.''
-->-- ''Series/{{Quark}}'', "May The Source Be With You"

->''"I must admit that I'm still not great at interacting with young men. But I think I am finally able to speak to Master Link while looking him in the eyes! [[WhatBeautifulEyes Those wonderful eyes]]... Naturally, I still get a little embarrassed... but I can't help it! I always follow his gorgeous gaze with my own. I blame his beautiful blue eyes. Ugh. This is all so strange... I wonder if I'm coming down with something. I'll ask Grandmother for some medicine tomorrow."''

->''"When I asked [[ShipperOnDeck Grandmother]] for some medicine, she just sat there with a grin on her face. I went to Cado and Dorian to ask them what that meant, but they just grinned at me too. In the end, I wasn't able to get any medicine..."''
-->--'''[[TheIngenue Paya's]] Diary,''' ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''

->'''Kaworu:''' How does he just... do that? Sit down and... create? I thought humans were unable to create something out of nothing. That they must have something to start with, because humans aren't gods. But he’s just... doing it. Out of... just feeling for her. How...\\
'''Rei:''' If you are incapable of understanding love and how it can let us do the impossible, I pity you.\\
'''Kaworu:''' But I want to! And... it always feels like it’s just beyond the edge of me comprehending it!
-->-- ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust''

->"Love doesn't exist. There is no such thing as love. Therefore, there is no sorrow... [[BelatedLoveEpiphany That's what I thought.]]"
-->-- '''Ryo Asuka''', ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby''

'''Legion''': [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments ... No data available]].

->[[color:grey:CG: IT'S REALLY WEIRD.]]\\
[[color:grey:CG: THIS HUMAN EMOTION CALLED FRIENDSHIP.]]\\
[[color:blue:EB: friendship isn't an emotion fucknuts.]]

->''This concept of "[[BabyTalk wuv]]" confuses and '''''infuriates''''' us!''

->'''[[NietzscheWannabe Ulquiorra]]''': You humans throw around that word so casually... tell me then: What is a "heart?"\\
If I tore a hole in your chest, would I see it? If I split open your skull, will it be ''there''?
-->-- ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''

->''He harbored an infatuation towards her, [[BenevolentAI she]] knew. She didn’t know if she returned those feelings. Her programming suggested she ''could'' love, but she didn’t know how to recognize the feeling. Anything she read spoke of butterflies in one’s stomach, a rapid heartbeat, a feeling of electricity crackling on body contact. Biological things. She could admit she was fond of him in a way she wasn’t fond of anyone else. She recognized that she was willing to overlook his faults in a way she shouldn’t.''

->''"I tell you, that's impossible! It just can't happen! Eva-san's automatons are robots with their anima magically ensouled! Did you ''hear'' me just then?! "Ensouled!" How unscientific is that?! Of all things - love!! Love, the one emotion that defies all rational thought and explanation!! Am I to become a philosopher, then? Am I to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of the human condition?! For an artificial intelligence to even ''experience'' such a thing - to fall into the realm of the ''subjective'' rather than the ''objective'' - that can lead only to one, inevitable conclusion - that Chachamaru has become ''self-aware!'' When one can monitor one's internal thought patterns with an 'inner eye' - that is self-awareness! We're talking ''meta-consciousness'' here! There's no scientific rationale for ''that!!'' Chachamaru was never ''intended'' to develop such a thing.. then again - then again - when it comes to ''emotions'', who can say what is or ''isn't'' rational?! To be ''human'' is to have ''emotions'', and to have emotions is to have ''love''. And, once there's ''love'', hey, why not throw ''reproductive endocrinology'' into the mix! I mean, why not, right?! And ''reproduction'' means ''death'' - which is all well and good if we're talking about ''replicants'', but we're not - we're talking about ''robots''! Robots don't have emotion - they just ''can't''. Or could it be that - maybe, just maybe! - it's only the ghost of an emotion, generated by her auto-learning program...? Still - even so - from a strictly ''methodological'' standpoint - it's all too bloody ''subjective'' for a scientist to wrap her mind around, don't you think? Science is absolute!! It's... ohmigawd, what am I ''saying'', it sounds like I've ''given up!'' This isn't good - it's ''not good'', I tell you! - Since ''when'' has the lack of an ''easy answer'' been an excuse to... For what did I sell ''my soul'' to science if not to ''answer'' those very same ''hard questions?!'' Was it the magic based power system that Eva-san gave me which caused an unforeseen side-effect on her systems?! No. ''No!'' I can't accept that. That's just another ''easy answer'' - that's what ''that'' is!! Then again, there is that brother-sister team at M.I.T. that supposedly engineered an artificial intelligence capable of independent emotion, so ''maybe''..."''

->'''Dexter:''' They make it look so easy... connecting with another human being. It's like no one told them it's the hardest thing in the world.
-->-- ''Series/{{Dexter}} (Season 5 Episode 12)''

->''Basic law of the Foreign Service:'' [[RubberForeheadAliens Atevi]] aren't friends. Atevi can't be friends. They don't like you. They're not capable of liking you. [[BizarreAlienPsychology The wiring isn't there]].
-->-- ''Literature/{{Foreigner}}''

->'''HK-47:''' Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.
-->-- ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''

-> ''"Love? What's that? Does it taste good?"''

->''"Oh, Arnold, what is this thing called love? What is this crazy little emotion that makes our stomachs turn all topsy-turvy, our knees buckle? What is this wacky thing that makes us feel attraction for one person, and total repulsion for another?"''
-->--'''[[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Helga G. Pataki]]'''

->''"[[EmpathicWeapon This sword]] possesses by using people's love. But I cannot love."''

->'''Ficus:''' Yes, but as an animal you must endure the [[LoveHurts pain of love]].

->''"I must admit that I'm still not great at interacting with young men. But I think I am finally able to speak to Master Link while looking him in the eyes! [[WhatBeautifulEyes Those wonderful eyes]]... Naturally, I still get a little embarrassed... but I can't help it! I always follow his gorgeous gaze with my own. I blame his beautiful blue eyes. Ugh. This is all so strane... I wonder if I'm coming down with something. I'll ask Grandmother for some medicine tomorrow."''

->''"Love doesn't exist. There is no such thing as love. Therefore, there is no sorrow... [[BelatedLoveEpiphany That's what I thought.]]"

->'''HK-47:''' Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometres away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.

->''"Oh, Arnold, what is this thing called love? What is this crazy little emotion that makes our stomachs turn all topsy turvy, our knees buckle? What is this wacky thing that makes us feel attraction for one person, and total repulsion for another?"''

->''Did he love her? he wondered. It wasn’t the first time he’d wondered this, but there was urgency to it, now. He didn’t know what love was. How could he? He believed he knew what Christian love was. He cherished it. To love one another through the love of God. The communication of souls past the barriers of flesh and space. Removal of the masks placed on us by nature. Turning away from the shadows on Plato’s cave wall to actually face one another. That kind of love, Paul understood.''

->''He wanted desperately to believe that even if sex were a useful aid toward spiritual union, that it was not an absolutely necessary one. After all, among promiscuous humans, it seemed to actually be a hindrace to that end; and for all their liasons, such people seemed terribly lonely.'' Oh yes, Paul, and you speak from such experience, don’t you? ''he scolded himself.''

->''"I must admit that I'm still not great at interacting with young men. But I think I am finally able to speak to Master Link while looking him in the eyes! [[WhatBeautifulEyes Those wonderful eyes]]... Naturally I still get a little embarrassed... but I can't help it! I always follow his gorgeous gaze with my own. I blame his beautiful blue eyes. Ugh. This is all so strange....I wonder if I'm coming down with something. I'll ask Grandmother for some medicine tomorrow."''

->''"I must admit that I'm still not great at interacting with young men. But I think I am finally able to speak to Master Link while looking him in the eyes! Those wonderful eyes... Naturally I still get a little embarrassed... but I can't help it! I always follow his gorgeous gaze with my own. I blame his beautiful blue eyes. Ugh. This is all so strange....I wonder if I'm coming down with something. I'll ask Grandmother for some medicine tomorrow."''

-->-- ''VideoGames/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''

->''Basic law of the Foreign Service:'' Atevi aren't friends. Atevi can't be friends. They don't like you. They're not capable of liking you. The wiring isn't there.

->'''Ficus:''' Yes, but as an animal you must endure the pain of love.

->'''Quark:''' ''[[CaptainsLog Starnote]] -- I've just argued over the concept of a plant...and lost.''

->'''Ficus:''' Yes, but as an animal you can endure the pain of love.

->'''Ficus:''' Following your logic, commander, the pain of a toothache would make a toothache endearing. The more painful, the more endearing.

-->-- '''Haddaway,''' ''What Is Love''

-->-- ''PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''

-->--'''[[HeyArnold Helga G. Pataki]]'''

-->-- '''Hakase Satomi''', [[WallOfText on discovering]] that her creation [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]] is experiencing love, ''MahouSenseiNegima''

'''Legion''': [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming ... No data available]].

->''"[[EmpatheticWeapon This sword]] possesses by using people's love. But I cannot love."''

-> '''[[PlayerCharacter Shepard]]''': That doesn't explain why ''you'' used a piece of ''my'' armor to fix yourself.]]\\

-> '''[[PlayerCharacter Shepard]]''': That doesn't explain why ''you'' used a piece of ''my'' armor to fix yourself.]]

-> '''[[PlayerCharacter Shepard]]''': That doesn't explain why ''you'' used a piece of ''my'' armor to fix yourself.
-> '''Legion''': ... There was a hole.
-> '''Shepard''': But why didn't you fix it sooner, or with something else?
-> '''Legion''': [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming ... No data available]].

->'''[[NietzscheWannabe Ulquiorra]]''': You humans throw around that word so casually... tell me then: What is a "heart?"
->If I tore a hole in your chest, would I see it? If I split open your skull, will it be ''there''?

->'''Azula:''' The thing I don't understand is ''[[EvilCannotComprehendGood why]].'' Why would you [[HeelFaceTurn do it?]] You know the consequences.
->[[spoiler: '''Mai:''' I guess you just don't know people as well as you think you do. You miscalculated. [[MachiavelliWasWrong I love Zuko more than I fear you.]]]]

->[[color:grey:CG: IT'S REALLY WEIRD.]]
->[[color:grey:CG: THIS HUMAN EMOTION CALLED FRIENDSHIP.]]
->[[color:blue:EB: friendship isn't an emotion fucknuts.]]

->'''Mikhail:''' Aren't families and strangers the same thing? Where is the line between those you love and those you don't?
->'''Kiri:''' To begin with...you love them?

->-- '''Hakase Satomi''', [[WallOfText on discovering]] that her creation [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]] is experiencing love, ''MahouSenseiNegima''

->'''Leela:''' It's amazing how your people fall in love so quickly here!
->'''Zoidberg:''' ''Love?'' That word is unknown here. I'm simply looking for a female swollen with eggs to accept my genetic material.
->'''Fry:''' You and me both brother!