Quotes on Cynical Love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

What is love but a second-hand emotion?

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.