“I don't know why I had to fall in love with someone who's more stubborn than I am.”

“I find myself wondering why—out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved—I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

“I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

“I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore."
And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.”

Don Winslow book Savages

“I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

“I don't know why
I love you like I do
I don't know why, but I do.”

Roy Turk (1892–1934) American songwriter

“I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“I am always in love, but unfortunately for the party concerned, I fall out of love or rather fall in love with someone else before any damage can be done.”

Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941) Hungarian Indian artist

“He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”

Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature