There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The line frames love as a self-reinforcing condition: if love feels like a wound, the only “cure” is not withdrawal or calculation but a deeper commitment to the very feeling that causes vulnerability. Read this way, it rejects the idea that love can be managed like an ailment and instead treats it as an ethical or spiritual practice—something answered by expansion rather than restraint. The paradox also implies that attempts to escape love (through cynicism, distance, or distraction) merely prolong suffering, whereas fuller openness transforms pain into growth. Even when attributed to Thoreau, the sentiment aligns broadly with Romantic-era notions of love as a force that must be met on its own terms.