Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The line defines love less as affection or moral commitment than as a reciprocal hunger for recognition: to love is to crave being wanted, and wanted intensely. Its epigrammatic symmetry (“irresistible…irresistibly”) suggests a self-reinforcing loop in which desire seeks confirmation through another’s desire. Read this way, the quote points to love’s psychological dimension—validation, mutual attraction, and the wish to be chosen—rather than to altruism. It also implies a paradox: love can feel compulsive (“irresistible”), potentially blurring the boundary between genuine attachment and the need for admiration or security.