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But I know what love is.” By the time the movie is over, you realize that, more than most of us, he does know what love is. When it’s clear she is not going to say yes, he says, “Why don’t you love me, Jenny? I’m not a smart man. Later in the story, Forrest asks her if she will marry him. At one point Forrest tells her he loves her and she quickly responds, “You don’t know what love is.” In her mind, his low intelligence makes him incapable of truly understanding love. Forrest, who is mildly retarded, has been in love since childhood with Jenny, whose abuse by her father has left her psychologically damaged. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.There is a powerful scene in the movie Forrest Gump. But the love will have been enough all those impulses of love return the love that made them. But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. Camilla alone remembers her Uncle Pio and her son this woman, her mother. "Even now," she thought, "almost no one remembers Esteban and Pepita but myself. Love-handles "the fat on one's sides" is by 1967. Love bug, imaginary insect, is from 1883. Love life "one's collective amorous activities" is from 1919, originally a term in psychological jargon. Love affair "a particular experience of love" is from 1590s. To make love is from 1570s in the sense "pay amorous attention to " as a euphemism for "have sex," it is attested from c. To fall in love is attested from early 15c. 1640) as well as two who have no liking for each other (1620s, the usual modern sense). in reference to two who love each other well (c. The phrase no love lost (between two people) is ambiguous and was used 17c. Phrase for love or money "for anything" is attested from 1580s. The sense "no score" (in tennis, etc.) is 1742, from the notion of playing for love (1670s), that is, for no stakes. Meaning "a beloved person" is from early 13c.

The weakened sense "liking, fondness" was in Old English. The Germanic words are from PIE root *leubh- "to care, desire, love." Old English lufu "feeling of love romantic sexual attraction affection friendliness the love of God Love as an abstraction or personification," from Proto-Germanic *lubo (source also of Old High German liubi "joy," German Liebe "love " Old Norse, Old Frisian, Dutch lof German Lob "praise " Old Saxon liof, Old Frisian liaf, Dutch lief, Old High German liob, German lieb, Gothic liufs "dear, beloved").