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They brought their death upon themselves by ignoring and not sincerely thinking about the consequences of their love. Desperate love is different than true love and Romeo and Juliet seem to be more desperate than true. The belief of love at first sight when Romeo states, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne 'er saw true beauty till this night.”. It is impossible for him to know for certain that what he feels in his heart is true because love is about the good and the bad in a person, and knowing and accepting that. Romeo shouldn 't have let Juliets outer appearance be the trigger for his undying love for her because it is uncertain that it was ever even love. In Act 1 scene 5 Juliet expresses her feelings for Romeo by saying, “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.” She feels that she speaks the truth and that she will never love anyone ever again when she herself doesn 't know if its true love. She doesn 't understand that life is a long journey and at such a young age with so little experience with love it is impossible for either of them to know its true love. “Love is blind and lovers cannot see, the petty that themselves commit. Act 1 scene 2. This is a warning. Such happiness that love offers always comes at a price