Quotes About Conflict

I can't carry this in my heart ... for it's tearing me apart

Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end!

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

I've had a lover's quarrel with the world

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

But logic never could convince the heart

Love is a many splintered thing.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way.

Love and lordship hate companions

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. (Psalms 109:4)

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name

Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom

Love and reason keep little company together

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder

Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard

War is like love, it always finds a way

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always mortal enemies