Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the differing perspectives of men and women on love, addressing its persistence and finality.
H.L. Mencken's quote reflects the contrasting attitudes towards love between men and women, suggesting that men may struggle to let go of love, while women may find it difficult to revive love once it has faded. This observation emphasizes the complexities and challenges inherent in romantic relationships, revealing how both genders approach the emotional journey of love differently.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a discussion on relationship dynamics at a seminar.
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.
A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.
I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts of their lives, they will not be part of any narratives of their ownβ¦women will be staving off destiny and not inviting or inventing or controlling it.
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