Romeo And Juliet Love Quotes

Before reading Romeo and Juliet, we discussed several quotes that relate to love. These quotes explain the many aspects of the complicated emotion we call love. The quotes also relate to the play in multiple ways. Each quote resembles something a character does or says in the play. Two quotes that apply to this play in a crucial way are “Love is the fruit of marriage” and “It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.”

To begin, the quote “Love is the fruit of marriage” applies to the entire story of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet fall in “love” and get married shortly after they meet. The character this line applies to the most is Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence is a character that would agree with this quote

if it were said to him. In Act II, Scene 3, the Friar hesitantly marries the two star-crossed lovers based solely on the fact that they say are “in love.” This proves that Friar Laurence believes love is the only necessary aspect needed for marriage to occur. Other things are to come later down the road. Love is the fruit or most important part of marriage, which is why the Friar married Romeo and Juliet, two ignorant young people, without thinking it through. Friar Laurence believes that “Love is the fruit of marriage.”
Furthermore, the quote “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” pertains to multiple characters in the play.

One of the main characters this quote applies to is Juliet. Juliet falls in love with Romeo early on in the play. Throughout the course of the play, she experiences many tragedies. In Act III, Scene 1, her cousin, Tybalt, is slain by her own lover. At first, she grieves for him, but later realizes she prefers her beloved newlywed husband to live rather than another member of her family. Juliet then disregards the death of her own cousin and weeps because of Romeo’s banishment from Verona. As the play reaches its culmination in Act V, Scene 3, Juliet lays in the tomb, awaiting Romeo’s arrival. Romeo arrives, truly believes she is dead, and drinks poison so he can be with her. Juliet awakens from her slumber and finds Romeo dead and in the and in the name of love, kills herself to be with Romeo in life and death. After all of the misfortune she experiences, her love for Romeo still reigns supreme and brings her joy in times of sorrow. She still experiences love in her short lifetime and although she lost, she finds it better that she experienced love through it all than to never have felt true

love.