Unrealistic Love Quotes

... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

I was never a 'Mills and Boon' kind of a person.

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

Romance, eternal love, exists in very few cases. And that's a reality you just have to accept.

Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books.

A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.

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.

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.

I've been in relationships where we've said 'I love you' after two weeks.

I really don't know what it's like in 'Twilight,' but I know in the young-adult genre, there are these cold, aloof guys. If you start thinking that's the ideal guy when you're 13, by the time you're 25, you're going to have had some seriously bad relationships.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.