Robert Sternberg Quotes

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

Love and hate are two of the strongest emotions we feel in relationships.

I've had friends who say that they would never forgive cheating, but then they fall in love, the guy cheats, and they forgive him. I don't know what I would do.

No wound is worse than counterfeited love.

I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember . . . dying.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

Men hate more steadily than they love.

My girlfriend is despicable. I just found out she flirted with my brother, during my mom's funeral, while I was asleep.

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

Don't cry." "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me." "Well, why else did you think all of this was happening?" He set the book aside to wrap his arms around me. "The Furies wouldn't be trying to kill you if I didn't love you." "I didn't know," I said. Tears were trickling down my cheeks, but I did nothing to try to stop them. His shirt was absorving most of them. "You never said anything about it. Every time I saw you, you just acted so... wild." "How was I supposed to act?" he asked. "You kept doing things like throwing tea in my face.

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

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.

I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

Everybody writes about love and cheating and heartbreak. We've done all that.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

If you are in passionate love and want to celebrate your passion, read poetry. If your ardor has calmed and you want to understand your evolving relationship, read psychology. But if you have just ended a relationship and would like to believe you are better off without love, read philosophy.

That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend instead. And you don't know what to do. You're thrown.