Love is evil.

"There is nothing, basically. I mean it quite literally. Like, ultimately there are just some fragments, some vanishing things... If you look at the universe, it's one big void. But then, how do things emerge? Here, I feel a kind of spontaneous afinity with quantum physics, where, you know, the idea there is that universe is a void, but a kind of positively charged void. And then, particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed. And I like this idea of 'spontaneously' very much: the fact that it's not just nothing; things are out there. It means something went terribly wrong. That what we call 'creation', it's a kind of a cosmic inbalance, cosmic catastrophy. That things exist by mistake. And I'm even ready to go to the end, and to claim that the only way to counteract it is to asume the mistake and go to the end.

And we have a name for this. It's called love. Isn't love precisely this kind of a cosmic inbalance? I was always disgusted with this notion of 'I love the world', the universal love. I don't like the world. I'm basically somehow in between 'I hate the world' or 'I'm indifferent to it'. But, the whole of reality is just it, it's stupid, it is out there. I don't care about it. Love, for me, is an extremely violent act. Love is not 'I love you all'. Love means 'I pick out something', and, you know, it's again this structure of inbalance. Even when this is something, just a small detail, a fragile individual person, I say 'I love you more than anything else'. In this quite formal sense, love is evil."

- Slavoj Žižek