Paulo Coelho Quotes

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

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.

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

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.

Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.

You can't go on telling, 'I am in love.'

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.