Deceptive Love Quotes

For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.

Said I loved you but I lied, cause this is more than love I feel inside.

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman.

We are lied to by our love songs.

Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there would be some man sitting at a bar in the local village, crying into his beer and sputtering to the bartender how much he loved his wife and children while at the same time he was wasting his family's money and depriving them of his attention. We recounted how this man was thinking love and feeling love--were they not real tears in his eyes?--but he was not in truth behaving with love.