Quotes About Love Isn't Real

#1. Love isn't real. Love is what people say to you so they can keep fucking you. So they can keep your interest. I don't want lies. I want my ass slapped. My hair pulled, and treated like a little whore.

Scott Hildreth

#2. I've always been afraid that love isn't real. So I watched movies that assured me that there can be happy endings and shit.

Tarryn Fisher

#3. Violet!' Lincoln said, then sighed. 'You don't love him. This isn't real. You know what's real and it's hard and it hurts and we can't ... Damn it, Vi
we're real!

Jessica Shirvington

#4. If people are going to be allowed to say "we love you" and "I love you", they'd better have the backbone to prove it. Love isn't just a word.

C. JoyBell C.

#5. The real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true ...

John Geddes

#6. We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.

Ann Brashares

#7. [Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.

Columbus Short

#8. Love isn't perfect. It's hard work and sometimes it's more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

Jay Crownover

#9. Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn't like Corinthians. The "suffereth long" and "is kind" nonsense. It's like the Song of Solomon. It's jealousy and fire and floods. It's everything that consumes.

Julie Anne Long

#10. Real love isn't about drama or heartbreak. Real love just is.

Susan Dennard

#11. Real love is sometimes painful. It isn't just the highest of the high - it's also the lowest of the low. It's being on that bottom rung, holding on with half a finger as you struggle to breathe through the pain.

Ella Fox

#12. You need to understand that love isn't all romance and flowers and great sex, Violet." I raised my eyebrows, but she didn't stop. "Real love takes work and effort and time. Real love is willing to wait while you sort your shit out, and is still there once you get your head on straight.

Brooke Moss

#13. It isn't for the faint of heart, nor is it ever to be taken lightly. Real love is heartcore.

Jeff Brown

#14. Whatever the world has tried to tell us about love," he said as his eyes looked deeply into hers and he shook his head, "it isn't right." Ana nodded gently in agreement. "They think love is all about consumption but I think real love deprives when necessary.

Bella Bryce

#15. Real love isn't a payment. It isn't a response to your accomplishments or anything else. It's a gift without strings.

Lisa Wingate

#16. Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other - parting - well, it just isn't real.

Josephine Lawrence

#17. Regret isn't real. It's something invented to punish ourselves

Robin Bielman

#18. Texting is a sex toy: pleasurable but a substitute for the real thing. Love has a face. Video chatting is good, but who's comfortable enough to share their "bed hair"? Love isn't about pat answers.

Chila Woychik

#19. The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

Conor McPherson

#20. Believing in love isn't like believing in flying reindeer. It's like believing in rain. Or summer. Or Christmas. Love is real and steady and absolutely essential to any kind of life. Not believing in it doesn't make it any less so.

Sabrina Jeffries

#21. She'll take what she can get and be happy about it, because love isn't about convenience and frozen yogurt and real life. That isn't what love is about.

Kelly Link

#22. Oh come on, Hannah. This isn't news. I've been in love with you for years. Years! And you always push me away, like I'm not real.

Jessica Love

#23. Love isn't always clean and pretty--sometimes it's messy, cruel, and confusing. And sometimes, it doesn't turn out the way you want it to. But then, the beauty of love is that it's very strong, and when it's real, it's worth it.

Heather Lyons

#24. I'm going to go," he said.
"All right."
He didn't move. Then: "I don't want to."
"Do it anyway."
He chuckled. "You're a hard woman, Faith Devlin."
"Hardy."
"I didn't know him. He isn't real to me. Did you love him?"
"Yes." But not the way I love you. Never like that.

Linda Howard

#25. In my experience, a lot of the boys who are real computer-heads tend to be pale-skinned sci-fi fans. Not that there's anything wrong with that - I happen to be a pale-skinned sci-fi fan myself - but that doesn't mean I have to fancy other seethrough geeks.
So let's hope Adam isn't as picky as me.

Kate Le Vann

#26. Real life, real love, isn't the way you see it in movies or read about in books.

Jennifer Ziegler

#27. Real love isn't ever ambivalent,

Tony Kushner

#28. There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's

Jed Rubenfeld

#29. Being in love isn't always the fairytale we want it to be, but guess what? Fairytales aren't real. Love is, or it can be, if you meet its challenges head on. And being less than honest with someone you love is the worst possible thing you can do.

Carol Lynne

#30. Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.

Jennifer Crusie

#31. The chase for more, and the need to be recognised through our achievements and belongings, can hinder us from the real things, like time with those we love, time doing things we love ourselves, and balance. It's probably all about balance really, isn't it?

Bronnie Ware

#32. Real life isn't like those comic books you love so much.

James L. Rubart

#33. Real love isn't just a euphoric, spontaneous feeling - it's a deliberate choice - a plan to love each other for better and worse, for richer and poorer, in sickness and in health.

Seth Adam Smith

#34. Fear isn't real. It's something we create when we think about what could happen.

Robin Bielman

#35. Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love.

N.A. Koziol

#36. Love isn't in body to body contact nor is it in the emotions oozed through tears and weeps. Real love lies in soul to soul connection that you can feel through spiritual practices. Love is boundless and selflessness often we mistake with greedy contentment. Love is give and sacrifice

Sadashivan Nair

#37. A real, healthy relationship is about empowerment and love and that should be standard - but it isn't.

Debby Ryan

#38. I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.

Donald Miller

#39. I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

Philip Kerr

#40. But love isn't a career. It isn't a degree you earn or a formula you pull out of a textbook. It's bumpy and blotched and painful and completely irreplaceable. Aren't there times when it might be better to let go? Sometimes the best part of life grows out of what you have no say over.

Carol Cassella

#41. Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.

Rebecca McNutt

#42. My father nodded. 'Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem
for you anyway
is that you're in love with him.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#43. This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.

Lauren DeStefano

#44. Sonya's a real person, like your Mother. Thirty years ago, that was your Mother's biggest flaw in my eyes, and now that's the thing I love most about Sonya. It's funny how things end, isn't it?

Matthew Norman

#45. I'm too busy trying not to be in love with someone who isn't real.

Becky Albertalli

#46. His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

Freya North

#47. Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

Dan Fogelberg

#48. And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.

Jenny Han

#49. Real love isn't something you plan or earn, it's something that just hits you -like a bolt of lightning- and changes you forever.

Chelsea Fine

#50. Real value isn't in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

T.D. Jakes

#51. Loving someone isn't dumb," Henry said. "I mean, I don't know a whole lot about love, but I don't think it's dumb if it's real.

Heather Davis

#52. But love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn't like Corinthians. The "suffereth long" and "is kind" nonsense. It's like the Song of Solomon. It's jealousy and fire and floods. It's everything that consumes." - Lady Fennimore

Julie Anne Long

#53. Because this isn't the movies, Doc. In the real world, when a seventeen-year-old guy gets a love letter from his best friend, he doesn't suddenly decide to love her back. He runs screaming.

Aimee L. Salter

#54. Happy isn't even a real idea," he said. "It's just like love. A reasonably skeptical person doesn't even know what it means.

Ethan Canin

#55. I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't ... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

Haruki Murakami

#56. It doesn't have to be logical, it doesn't have to be love in the usual sense. It doesn't even have to be long lasting. Usually it isn't. But whatever it is, it is real and powerful while it lasts, and there's no point denying it.

Lynn Hall

#57. Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.

Nick Hornby

#58. There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

John Powell

#59. I'm beginning to recognise that real happiness isn't something large and looming on the horizon ahead, but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.

Beau Taplin