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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

Does love which is fed fat soon turn to boredom?

“Love fed fat soon turns to boredom” -a quote from Ovid. What does this mean? I have a suspicion, but I can't seem to find confirmation. If you do know, could you also explain it or site your source?

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  • Irv S
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    That's lust.

    Love 'fed fat' is insatiable.

  • Sara
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Love is a very complicated subject.

    Some people who get all the love they want get bored and complacent, but others feel more and more happy and contented.

    Constant worry and jealousy and intrigue may feed some souls and disturb others.

    Some love guides will tell you to give each other a great deal of time alone or "space" but fail to see how that can breed loneliness in some married people. I've heard married men complain, "She's always gone."

    So I'm afraid Ovid is painting all relationships with the same brush.

    The best advice I ever heard came from a happily married old couple; the man was a famous violinist with an orchestra. The wife said, "You have to enjoy how your husband goes about living his life."

  • 1 decade ago

    No sources, but I would think that that quote means that when you go into love with too much stamina, then the flame will burn out quickly. Like, if you go into a relationship full of love and keep displaying devotion and putting all that you have into that love, you will soon lose some interest in it and the monotony of constant devotion will take its toll, turning to boredom.

  • Oleg B
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    It does not matter how you fed Love with reach or pure diet, it is producing the same essence of boredom, which comes in many different forms.Boredom is actually last stage in which Love as we know it does not present anymore.The key word is "fed"...Love does not need our ignorant substute of compassion , for Love does feed ITSELF eternally. Any stupid idea to fix or improve that which is naturally perfect make it look and understand as we define it...imperfect in another word.

  • 1 decade ago

    Honestly, I think boredom is deep-rooted in our nature as humans. It is the one thing that leads us to find things to motivate us in life in order to stave off the present boredom that lingers. However, it is a cycle that continues endlessly: Get bored, desire something to take boredom away, be happy temporarily, get bored, desire something to take boredom away, be happy, get bored, and repeat.

    Consider this article:

    http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2529905/b...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It probably means that love experienced in small increments, trials and hardships is much more exciting than love experienced without hardships. And that love experience in petty indulgences, hedonism and dainty pleasure in life, become stagnant and rotten.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Never believed in Love, Weak People who want to be tied down financially and mentally fall in love I would rather spend time enjoying life rather than thinking are they enjoying this or just saying they are..better things to do rather than spending my life trying to make a stranger happy

  • 1 decade ago

    After a given amount of time we grow bored from indulgences

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, doting on a loved one makes that loved one bored after a while. There is no excitement in their life, they know that whatever they do or say it won't matter. There is no mystery.

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