Love Constraints Quotes

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

Imagine finding someone you love more than anything in the world, who you would risk your life for but couldn't marry. And you couldn't have that special day the way your friends do-you know, wear the ring on your finger and have it mean the same thing as everybody else. Just put yourself in that person's shoes. It makes me feel sick to my stomach

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

To be in love with someone and be raising a family with someone and want to make that commitment and not be able to is ludicrous, just ludicrous.

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.