
soulmates aren't real

For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination. The person in reality is just a template used for the creation of this dream lover. Eventually, they find out the differences between their dream lover and the templ
... See moreCixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
What replaced religion in our imaginations, as we have seen, is the cult of human-to-human love we now know as Romanticism, which bequeathed to us the beautiful but reckless idea that loneliness might be capable of being vanquished, if we are fortunate and determined enough to meet the one exalted being known as our soulmate, someone who will under
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don’t have genuine souls.
Gillian Flynn • Gone Girl: A Novel
theme of the soul mate — that there is someone out there who is destined for you, and that the Universe will guide you to that person.