50+ Complicated Love Quotes and Romantic Sayings with Images

Complicated Love Quotes

  • “Loving you is complicated.” —Kendrick Lamar
  • “Love isn’t complicated, people are.” —Unknown
  • “The course of true love never did run smooth.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.” —Diane Arbus
  • “The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.” —Jacques Benigne Bossuel
  • “You never loose by loving…you always loose by holding back.” —Loline U Paradero
  • “The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated.” —Marty Rubin
  • “Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.” —Proverb
  • “One’s first love is always perfect until one meets one’s second love.” —Elizabeth Aston
  • “Love is like a rumor, Everyone talks about it, But no one truly knows.” —Anonymous
  • “You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.” —Franz Kafka
  • “Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.” —Drew Barrymore
  • “No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.” —Mignon McLaughlin
  • “But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.” —Agatha Christie
  • “She might say she love me, she don’t love me like she say she love me.” —Drake
  • “All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.” —Julie Andrews
  • “Love is the easiest thing there is. It’s the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.” —Luanne Rice
  • “Why are we so complicated in something so pure and simplistic that would mean me should leave our ego out.” —Adrianne Wellman
  • “It’s like half of me really wants to be with you and the other half just wants to be over you.” —Unknown
  • “Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.” —Dorothy Parker
  • “It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know it has begun.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • “The more I loved her, the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself.” —Marvin Gaye
  • “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby: awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.” —Lemony Snicket
  • “They just have a complicated picture of what love is or what they think it is and cannot let go of the photo.” —Steve Rowland
  • “Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.” —Johnny Depp
  • “Love took a lot of different forms and sometimes what appeared to be love wasn’t really love at all, was just infatuation in disguise.” —Larry Brown
  • “We just have to accept the fact that some people are going to stay in our hearts even if they don’t stay in our lives.” —Ronald Oliver
  • “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
  • “It’s scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.” —Guillaume Musso
  • “It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.” —Gary Zukav

Famous Quotes about Complicated Love

  • “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” —Charlie Brown
  • “Take time to be sure, but be sure not to take too much time.” —Anonymous
  • “Love is like a rumor, Everyone talks about it, But no one truly knows.” —Anonymous
  • “O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.” —Jean La Fontaine
  • “But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.” —Agatha Christie
  • “Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.” —Bill Russell
  • “Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is —Love, forgive us! —cinders, ashes, dust.” —John Keats
  • “Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you and you meant nothing to him.” — Anonymous
  • “Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.” —Julie Hintz
  • “If I love you let you be and if it’s true love you will come back to me.” —Anonymous
  • “For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings, that then I scorn to change my state with kings.” —William Shakespeare
  • “I’ll follow you and make a heaven out of hell, and I’ll die by your hand which I love so well.” —William Shakespeare
  • “If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.” —Robert Goolrick
  • “How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?” —Albert Einstein
  • “You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.” —Julie de Lespinasse
  • “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.” —Agatha Christie
  • “Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.” —Lord Byron
  • “Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.” —Alexander Pope
  • “I know you would never do anything to hurt me, and perhaps that’s why I feel such guilt. Because I know your heart belongs to me, but mine belongs to someone else.” —JoAnne Golden
  • “They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.” —William Shakespeare
  • “No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.” —Anonymous
  • “It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.” —Kahlil Gibran
  • “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Being in love is what makes working all week bearable. It makes cruising with your windows rolled down feel like you’re riding in a convertible. It makes you dance to the rhythm of the copy machine and makes Friday night really feel like THE WEEKEND.” —Anonymous
  • “…unrequited love does not die; it’s only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.” —Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief
  • “What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It’s we who make it complicated.” —Leo Buscaglia