Max Joseph Quotes

I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.

You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Taylor was an incurable romantic at heart. She never gave up on the notion that a love strong enough to last a lifetime was waiting for her around the next corner.

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.

The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.

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

We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up with behavior that we shouldn't put up with.

Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.

I'm not despairing of love at all.

To my detriment I'm quite rosy-visioned about the idea of love. It's slightly embarrassing but it's part of who I am.

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

Falling in love with a house or a car or a pair of shoes, it was a dead end. You save your love for the things that can love you back.

Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.