Love Paradox Quotes

I love you as one loves certain dark things.

I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”.

Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

I can't love you unless I give you up.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile.

A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

Some men a forward motion love, But I by backward steps would move, And when this dust falls to the urn In that state I came, return.

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

Love is not knowing what you're talking about.

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.