19 Brutally Honest And Raw Quotes About The Realities Of Love

19 quotes

It’s a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that’s been important to you. It’s actually not all that pleasurable.

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, Forgetting

“We were together. I forget the rest.”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, Together, couple

“It’s always going to be you, even when I’m busy pretending to love somebody else.”

— Laura Jane Williams, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, pretending, Somebody Else

“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, In love, danger, Edgy

“You will break someone’s heart if you fall in love with someone’s potential and then blame them for not living up to it. You will break someone’s heart if you fall in love with the changed version of them you have in your head, instead of the version they are, right now, in this moment.”

— Jamie Varon, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, Breaking Hearts, Potential

“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting,…”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, Romantic, Platonic, Betrayal

“I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.”

— Graeme Simsion, amazon.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, In love, Spend Life Together

“All I am saying is that when you really, really like someone, when you feel like they’re the only person you want to see at the end of a long day, when you’ve really gotten to know them and you feel like they’ve gotten to know you, ask them. When you’re no longer interested in pursuing other relatio…”

— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, What Are We?, smiling, Spark

“So what I’m trying to say is you should text me back. Because there’s a precedent. Because there’s an urgency. Because there’s a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don’t respond soon, I won’t know if you’d wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”

— Marina Keegan, amazon.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love

“In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”

— Maya Angelou, amazon.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, Bravery, Free

“This is not my escapism. This is my honesty. You are the shot of whisky that turns my throat from a body part to a cathedral. I am broken sparrow who flies back to your window because I heard you like my singing. You are land mines of potential. I am not afraid of the explosion.”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, Escape, Truth, Potential

“All you can do is be honest and real with him as you get to know each other. Deciding not to play games is the best way to go because it keeps things simple: If he messes it up by playing around with your heart, you'll know he doesn't deserve you. You were real with him, and he didn't return the cou…”

— Taylor Swift, eonline.com

Tagged: Relationship Advice, Guy Advice, Taylor Swift Advice

“It’s a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that’s been important to you. It’s actually not all that pleasurable. I don’t know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can’t bear an hour without somebody’s company.”

— Colin Firth, iheartintelligence.com

Tagged: Brutally Honest, Love, True Love, Reckless

“Fall in love with a guy who makes an effort. The guy who doesn’t throw in the towel when things get hard, who doesn’t storm away and run when you have a disagreement. A guy who is willing to sit down and talk through shit, even when it’s uncomfortable or hard. A guy who is always honest, always dire…”

— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, expression, Falling In Love

“I can't talk, so I stutter what I probably shouldn't say I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days I can't talk, I can't breathe cause your tongue's in my mouth I can't find my bra, I think it's somewhere in your couch”

— Brenda Weiler, amazon.com

Tagged: Falling In Love, Song Lyrics, Poetry

“Why do we all say we prefer honesty but rarely give that courtesy to others? Maybe in our hearts we all want to give others honesty, but in practice it’s just too damn hard. Honesty is confrontational. Crafting the ‘honest’ message takes a lot of time and thought. And no matter how delicately you do…”

— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com

Tagged: Dating, romance, Love, Marriage, love and romance

“You were the sun and loving you was photosynthesis.”

— Aman Batra, missfitpoetry.tumblr.com

Tagged: Brutally Honest, Love, True Love, Sun, Light

“What I wanted was the most honest part of your soul and what I received was everything I was trying to avoid.”

— R.H. Sin, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Disappointment

“Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show…”

— Harvey Milk, amazon.com

Tagged: Forever With You