To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.
If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.
Fools rush in, where wise men never go, But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?
People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.
This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.
Luce: "But what about all those other times, when I die before we kiss, before--" Bill: "Before you even have a chance to see how toxic your relationship might become?
There is such insecurity in loving that we see all the pros and cons and then decide how much we want to invest in relationships.
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
I've been in true love many times. I just try to avoid it as much as possible. For if there's one thing I know about true love, it is that sooner or later, it results in a hostage situation.
The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.
