Ability to love Quote by Bernie Siegel

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

— Bernie Siegel

The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must…

— Christiane Northrup

Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt and distrust…

— Richard Yates

Every couple will define their relationship by their ability and their inability to love.

— Vincent Archer

“...but what grieved him most was his inability to love these people as Christ had loved them.”

— shusaku endo

Hell is the inability to love.

— Anonymous

I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror…

— James A. Baldwin

“our inability to love comes most often from our lack of faith and our lack of hope.”

— Jacques Philippe

“A love that does not bear collision with reality is not a real love. But then the inability to love is a privilege of…

— Albert Camus

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.

— Anonymous

“History as a whole is the struggle between love and the inability to love, between love and the refusal to love.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

— Richard Yates