So you’re confused about love? I know the feeling. It’s not easy to figure out what someone else wants or how they feel, but it can be easier if we stop asking “What do I want?” and start asking “What does she want?” Let me help you find some inspiration with these quotes from famous people.
There are so many conflicting quotes about love. What does it mean when someone says “love is patient” and then another person says “love is blind“? The truth is, there are no rules for love. It’s up to each of us to decide what love means in our lives. This blog post will explore some of the ways that people have defined love throughout history by looking at quotes from different books, songs, movies, etc. I hope you enjoy it!
Love is a confusing emotion. Sometimes it can be hard to understand what we’re feeling and why. These love quotes perfectly capture the confusion that often comes with love.
Famous Confused Love Quotes For Him & Her
– I wish falling in love had traffic lights, so that I would know if I should go for it, slow down, or just stop! – Anonymous
– Love is so confusing – you tell a girl she looks great and what’s the first thing you do? Turn out the lights! – Robert Orben
– I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever. – Jim Carrey
– People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above. – Anne Roiphe
– I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty … you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. – J. D. Salinger
– Dear soul, I have a problem … My head is saying, ‘fool! Forget him’. My heart is saying ‘Don’t let him go’. My feet want to run to him. His arms want nothing, but to hold me close. And I don’t know how to say this correctly, or if its even true … But I wish he only knew that I love him too!! – Anonymous
– You wondered how you’d make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you’re looking for, is the one thing you can’t see. – Vanessa Williams
– We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. – W. Somerset Maughama
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.” – Wadsworth Longfellow
“Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.” – John Gay
“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
“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” ― J.D. Salinger
“Love is so confusing – you tell a girl she looks great and what’s the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!” – Robert Orben
“I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.” – Jim Carrey
“People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.” – Anne Roiphe
“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty … you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.” – J. D. Salinger
“Every time I start to ignore you and act as if I don’t care, there you go again showing up and messing up my mind.” – Xuan Ta
“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”― Criss Jami
“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” – Roger Ebert
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes … just be an illusion.” – Javan
“I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.” ― Johnny Depp
“You wondered how you’d make it through. I wondered what was wrong with you. Because how could you give your love to someone else, yet share your dreams with me? Sometimes the only thing you’re looking for, is the one thing you can’t see.” – Vanessa Williams
“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one” ― Rumi
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.” – Natalie Clifford Barney
“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.” ― K.L. Toth
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” – Hermann Hesse
“Love is when two people who care for each other get confused.” – Bob Schneider
“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.” ― Franz Kafka
“No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.” – Mignon McLaughlin
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” – George Bernard Shaw
“How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn’t he catch my falling star? I wish I didn’t wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.” – Toni Braxton
“Women are made to be loved, not understood.” – Oscar Wilde
“Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.” – Anne Roiphe
“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.” – Michel de Montaigne
“When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. “ – Amy Lowell
“Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us – which is really just love for ourselves.” – Warren Farrell
“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” – George Carlin
“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.” – Edward R. Murrow
“If I look confused it is because I am thinking.” – Samuel Goldwyn
“Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise, you just get confused.” – Cliff Burton
“Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from.” – Henna Inam
“Sometimes I’m confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn’t obvious” – Michael Stipe
“I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.” – Tim Burton
“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore” ― James Baldwin
“The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.” – Carl Sagan
“The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.” – Mark Twain
“To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it’s too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.” – Janet Jackson
“People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused.” ― Jonathan Ames
“We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.” – Alice Walker
“If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.” – Walter F. Mondale
“I don’t know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You’d be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.” ― Jodi Picoult
“Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.” – Simon Sinek
“Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.” – Shannon
“It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.” – Stephen Covey
“Tall, aren’t you?” she said. “I didn’t mean to be.” Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.” ― Raymond Chandler
“In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path – the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.” ― Amit Ray
“So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake – or to take no action and die slowly anyway?” ― Ahdaf Soueif
“Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.” ― Milan Kundera
“Whatever I learned, whatever I knew seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, away in some dilemma, always in some confusion, the purpose of this life, seems like an illusion!” ― Mehek Bassi
“Let the one before you not witness your inner fight; Keep your chaotic thoughts and emotions tight. For now, it is your soul that I test, which is where yourself you manifest. It’s high time you become truly wise; learn not to fall to evil in disguise. Confuse the one before you, as you are confused; never let your feelings be used or abused.”― Melita Tessy
“Never make the mistake of thinking you are alone — or inconsequential. Ignorance is voluntary and confusion is temporary. You see the world as-is, which is more than can be said for the vast populace.” ― Rebecca McKinsey
“There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip.” ― T.F. Hodge
“We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.” ― Hark Herald Sarmiento