You Can't Control Love Quotes

#1. Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

Debra Messing

#2. I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

Johnny Weir

#3. There is nothing you can control about love.

Jennifer Aniston

#4. They never tell you when you get born a control freak it will cost you a healthy love life. But it's true. You can't control somebody and have intimacy with them at the same time. They may stay because they fear you, but true love casts out fear.

Donald Miller

#5. After all these years, my heart still wants you. It still misses you. it still aches for you. I can't control what my heart wants, I could just deny it of it ... Love, Viv

Eveli Acosta

#6. Your life is shaped by the thoughts and experiences you choose - and make no mistake, the decision is always yours. I promise, when you learn to be conscious and in control of what you are focusing on, you can begin to create high vibrational experiences, which will transform and heal your life.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#7. I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe

#8. Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you trust, those you don't, those you can confide in and those whom you lie to. But of course the reality is that underneath it all, you are lying to yourself all the time.

Peter Barham

#9. The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#10. It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.
It's not a weakness.
It's your best strength.

Patrick Ness

#11. I love your control. It turns me on." He caught my fingers in his teeth, then released them.
"I know."
"But when you lose it ... " I sighed, remembering. "It drives me crazy to know I can do that to you, that you want me that much.

Sylvia Day

#12. But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.

Paulo Coelho

#13. You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.

Iyanla Vanzant

#14. Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.

Irvine Welsh

#15. One day love will be the death of me. Your love, in fact, specifically. You're the vice I can't control my lust for. You're the colour in my life that I seek for. However, you'd rather not fight, but walk away. Therefore, in the like of all tragedies, you will be the death of me.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#16. Oh, Van. Don't you know? Home is where your mind goes when the night is black and your heart is hurting. Home is where you go when things are happening that you can't control but wish you could. Home is where the person you love is waiting for you.

Shelley Gray

#17. I've turned myself inside out to try and avoid what happened today. You affect me in ways I can't quantify or contain. All I can measure is the effect, and the effect is that I am out of control.

Jeanette Winterson

#18. I'd love to associate with a humankind that doesn't need religion to control it. A community which instead educates its young with a strong moral guidance. I'm trusting that you can live within an acceptable moral framework without having to believe that you'll go to hell if you don't

Robert Breeze

#19. You can't have a women's body without having her heart, mind and soul if only momentarily.

Pushpa Rana

#20. Honey, love isn't like rappeling into a cave, where you can control your descent and how deep you go. It's just falling into the hole.

Shannon Stacey

#21. You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

Kirsten Dunst

#22. Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#23. There's darkness in me that I can't always control. If you like a girl with a secret side, then you're gonna love me.

Kady Cross

#24. Men cheat. They lie. They love porn. The don't respect you and don't care if they hurt you. It's the fucking breaks. Women divorce 'em 'cause we can't tame 'em or train 'em or control 'em like we do household pets. End of story.

Terry McMillan

#25. With your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs under control, you can have as much as the richest man and be as peaceful as a Buddhist monk . You can experience inner-happiness and euphoric love.

Maddy Malhotra

#26. I think it's hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can't control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards.

Tarryn Fisher

#27. The great question that God's speech out of the whirlwind poses for Job and every other person of integrity is this: Can you love what you do not control?

Ellen F. Davis

#28. Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.

Toni Morrison

#29. I see the love in my child's eyes when he sees me, and I know it's gigantic. As an older person, I've been in love before, and I've loved, but this is really an immense, out-of-control-proportion amount of love that you can't even describe.

Kevin Nealon

#30. And I know
The scariest part is letting go
Cause love is a ghost you can't control

Christina Perri

#31. To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.

Marina Abramovic

#32. You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth

Billy Graham

#33. The biggest thing I've had to overcome was clinical depression. Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have once you can get control of your mind ... I had to stop hearing the negative voices where Jennifer was not worthy of love or living.

Jennifer Holliday

#34. Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

Lisa Kleypas

#35. The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.

Sophia Amoruso

#36. Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that.

Penelope Douglas

#37. My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

Mollie King

#38. You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border.

Jeb Bush

#39. Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their car, so they're in control and you can't escape. Then they drive you someplace in the middle of nowhere.

Flynn Meaney

#40. When you want something you can't have, it's like a strong magnet. It can come to control you.

Geraldine Solon

#41. But love like that can be too big, too. It can be something you shouldn't be trusted to hold when you're the kind of person who drops the eggs and breaks the remote control.

Amy Garvey

#42. You walked into my heart, Without my permission
And the more I've tried to hold on to the control,
They deeper you have sunk.
Your a love I can't grasp hold of, maybe that's why it scares that absolute shit out of me.

Nikki Rowe

#43. You can't control when you'll fall in love. I ignore her comment because hell yes I can. And I will.

Jillian Dodd

#44. In life there might be rules. In love there are no exceptions to those rules. No one is spared from heartbreak. We all suffer it at some point or another. You simply can't control who you love and in particular, you can't control what kind of person they are.

J.C. Reed

#45. I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.

David Gordon Green

#46. We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?

Dianna Hardy

#47. You can't use sex to control me, James. You shouldn't play with my heart like that." He laughed. It was sinister. "Oh Love, it's not your heart I'm playing with. And I'll play with your body whenever I damn well please.

R.K. Lilley

#48. I've lost control of the simple act of being able to breathe. I'm hyperventilating.
"I don't need you to show me how to breathe," I say.
"You don't?" He looks skeptical.
"I think I can handle the simple act of breathing without you.

Adriana Law

#49. The fact that you can act with love even when you don't feel love is very empowering. Why? Because whereas the feelings of love are fleeting and largely out of your control, you can take the actions of love anytime and anyplace for the whole rest of your life.

Russ Harris

#50. You can't control who loves you ... you can't let someone love you anymore than you can make someone love you

Amy Harmon

#51. If you treat glass right, it doesn't crack. If you know the properties, you can make things; the color of dusk and night and love. But you can't control people like that and I really, really wish you could. I want the world to be glass.

Cath Crowley

#52. I don't know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don't know why I didn't love her. It's something you can't really control.

Emily Giffin

#53. The feeling of love comes and goes on a whim; you can't control it. But the action of love is something you can do, regardless of how you are feeling.

Russ Harris

#54. I love 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' but in some ways I think 'The Lake of Dreams' is a stronger book. I was able to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's all you can ever do as a writer. From there on you have no control over it.

Kim Edwards

#55. I love you, that is important to me. You love me or not its your matter. Remember I can control only myself, not you at all.

Debasish Mridha

#56. Control what you can, love what you can, and the rest, well ... the rest was just the rest.

Rachel Van Dyken

#57. You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion.

Debasish Mridha

#58. Love ... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

David Seabury

#59. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#60. You deserve a man who makes you feel butterflies. Love isn't safe. Love is crazy and scary and unpredictable. You can't control it and you sure as hell can't fight it. It's one of life's greatest risks ... but it's also one of life's greatest gifts.

Karli Perrin

#61. I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

Stephen Lang

#62. Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

Jackson Browne

#63. Tiffany and I are great friends, and I appreciate all that she is doing for me now. But she is
not you. I still love you, Nikki. And you can't control or alter true love.

Matthew Quick

#64. The Mayor's wrong -
He's wrong forever and ever -
It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.

Patrick Ness

#65. I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.

Jane Badler

#66. Being in love with a right person can make you look more confident and in control.

Auliq Ice

#67. You don't own Ryan. You brought him into this family, and you asked us to love him. And we do. And you can't control that.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#68. Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.

Natalie Portman

#69. You can't force love. You can't control how someone else feels. You just have to enjoy it while it lasts and hope the ride doesn't end.

Teresa Mummert

#70. Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#71. Because it's easy to fall in love, Ben. The hard part comes when you want out." Makes sense. If you're the Tin Man. "You think you can actually control whether or not you fall in love with someone?

Colleen Hoover

#72. I see love as a force of nature. No matter how much you want to, you cannot control or demand love. No one can. It cannot be bought, bartered, or sold. It is priceless.

Anna Agoncillo

#73. The past is a tricky thing and we let it define us when we should embrace the here and now, and all that's still coming. You need to let yourself live from a place of love, not from a place of fear over the things you can't control.

Jennifer Farwell

#74. Never love something so much it can be used to control you.

Patrick Ness

#75. You can say you want love, but when it comes in a form you don't understand or can't control, will you shrink from it and push it away.

Annette Vaillancourt

#76. I've been in love before. It's like narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can control things. You think about the person for two minutes and forget them for three hours.

Paulo Coelho

#77. You'd be better served if
you gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least a
gentleman can do."
"And you're such a gentleman."
"Not with you, love. But I'm trying.

Anne Stuart

#78. Love makes everybody a victim because it's something you can't control. You can't control how you feel or what you're going through when you're doing it.

Drake Doremus