Al Goldstein Quotes

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

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.

Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It's just the moral values and standards was off. I was loving and lying.

One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.

One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.