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Love Quote by Halle Berry

"The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings"

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Berry’s line lands like a quiet rebuttal to the obsession with “progress” as a clean emotional upgrade. Yes, the times change: technology, politics, the pace of public life. But she’s arguing that the core engine of human behavior still runs on the same fuel: the need to be chosen, seen, held. It’s a deliberately modest claim, almost anti-hot-take, and that’s why it sticks. In a culture that treats reinvention as a moral duty, Berry frames constancy as the real headline.

The intent feels both personal and public-facing. As an actress whose life has been tabloid material and awards-season symbol, she’s speaking from inside the machinery that sells “new eras” while recycling the same old hungers. The subtext is that modernity hasn’t solved intimacy; it’s just given us more interfaces to search through. Love becomes less a rom-com destination than a sustained negotiation with loneliness, desire, and disappointment.

Calling love a “struggle” is the sentence’s emotional pivot. It refuses the comforting idea that love is simply found, like a lost object. Struggle implies effort, repetition, and the possibility of failure - a familiar rhythm in celebrity narratives, where fairy-tale coupling is demanded and then punished. Berry’s phrasing also slyly levels the playing field: fame doesn’t exempt you from the basic human ache. The line’s power is its demystification. It doesn’t glamourize suffering, but it admits that wanting love is not a phase we outgrow; it’s the plot we keep rewriting.

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Halle Berry

Halle Berry (born August 14, 1968) is a Actress from USA.

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