Romantic Disillusionment Quotes

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

If this was love, love had been overrated.

Love is nothing but a pain in the ass

We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?

Love is getting to be cynical, passion's just physical.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

Love is junk.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

I love you,too, Garrett. But sometimes love isn't enough.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.