Love Illusion Quotes

The overall concept of 'Only You' is a reflection on the illusion of love, how we confront, understand and manifest our self identities within relationships.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Love is not knowing what you're talking about.

And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.

You poor, deluded woman...do you believe there is any such thing as love?...You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet - on the other hand - what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt.

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

I used to love the idea of being in love, even though I hadn't been in love before.

What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.

Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

Someone once told me we have in our minds who we want, and often those aren't the people we actually want. Like, once there was a girl I thought was perfect for me - I had every box checked with her. But I just didn't feel anything.

We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.

People mistake the thrill of early love for a relationship that is capable of braving storms and get disillusioned when they find out that their partner isn't perfect.

I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.