利用对比修辞手法突出了情感的极端性。
"No truly great person (whether from antiquity or modern times, so long as their name remains immortal in human memory) has ever gone mad for love: for great endeavors suppress such weak emotions." — Bacon
"Love, hope, fear, and faith constitute humanity; they are the marks and characteristics of human nature." — Robert Browning
"Love is the angel of two souls joining together to fly to God, bringing the splendor of the world to Him." — Schwenckfeld
"The most beautiful and the most painful thing is love! The most noble and the most lowly is marriage and family." — Strindberg
"If calculation unrelated to love itself is mixed into love, then it is no longer true love." — Shakespeare
一切真正伟大的人物（无论是古人还是今人，只要其名能永载史册），没有一个人会因爱情而发狂：因为伟大的事业压制了这种软弱的情感。——培根
爱情、希望、恐惧和信仰构成了人性，它们是人性的标志与特征。——罗·勃朗宁
爱情是两个灵魂结合在一起飞向天国的天使，它将把尘世的光辉带给上帝。——显克微支
最美好也最痛苦的便是爱情；最高贵也最卑微的则是婚姻与家庭。——斯特林堡
如果爱情中掺杂了无关的算计，那便不再是真正的爱情。——莎士比亚