Love is intense, passionate but at the same time it is also gentle and compassionate. Sometimes, it gets complicated to an extent that you can’t define the state you’re in. Here are a few quotes that might help you understand this complex emotion.
“Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.”
– Julie Hintz
There are times in our lives when we perceive love negatively. After a breakup, during fights, in case of unrequited love, we are so vulnerable, that we refuse to picture our lives without the one person who means the world to us. Then again, there are times when someone loves us so much, we feel guilty for not being able to return the love that is normally expected. These are just a few complications that can arise in your love life; of course, there can be more. The quotes below, will help you in understanding the situation you are in. They may not solve your problem, but they’re known to heal wounds. Then again, these also help when you want to convey something to someone, and are at a loss of words.
Famous Quotes on Complicated Love
“For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings, that then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
– William Shakespeare
“What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It’s we who make it complicated.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
– Agatha Christie
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
– Albert Einstein
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.”
– William Shakespeare
“Being in love is what makes working all week bearable. It makes cruising with your windows rolled down feel like you’re riding in a convertible. It makes you dance to the rhythm of the copy machine and makes Friday night really feel like THE WEEKEND.”
– Anonymous
“Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.”
– Lord Byron
“I know you would never do anything to hurt me, and perhaps that’s why I feel such guilt. Because I know your heart belongs to me, but mine belongs to someone else.”
– JoAnne Golden
“Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is – Love, forgive us! – cinders, ashes, dust.”
– John Keats
“They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.”
– William Shakespeare
“I’ll follow you and make a heaven out of hell, and I’ll die by your hand which I love so well.”
– William Shakespeare
“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.”
– Anonymous
“Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.”
– Alexander Pope
“Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you and you meant nothing to him.”
– Anonymous
“Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.”
– Bill Russell
“…unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”
– Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief
“If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
– Robert Goolrick
“You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.”
– Julie de Lespinasse
These meaningful quotes will help you when you want to understand the situation you are in. This is because they will show you perspectives of other people. Looking at the same situation from different perspectives will help you evaluate your condition in the best manner.