Forced Love Quotes

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.

She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it is a duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him or her.

Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing.

I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.

Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.

The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.

Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.

The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.