Love Idealization Quotes

You cannot be in love with love.

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

I'm nothing like Romeo in real life.

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.

I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

In our culture, many of us idealize love. We see it as some lofty cure-all for all of life's problems. Our movies and our stories and our history all celebrate it as life's ultimate goal, the final solution for all of our pain and struggle. And because we idealize love, we overestimate it. As a result, our relationships pay a price.