Cannot Love Quotes

148 quotes by 106 authors

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If… — Nhat Hanh
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. — Hermann Hesse
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. — Imelda Marcos
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. — Marilyn Monroe
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? — Friedrich Nietzsche
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? — Anais Nin
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open… — John Lennon
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive. — Audre Lorde
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. — Simone Weil
I cannot love a man who cannot protect me. — Anne Bronte
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention. — Zadie Smith
Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way. — Corrie Ten Boom
Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you,… — Christina Rossetti
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. — Jonah Goldberg
Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love… — William P. Young
Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us — Pablo Neruda
A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is… — Anne Bronte
You cannot love without intuition. — Graham Greene
He said "Love...as I have loved you." We cannot love too much. — Amy Carmichael
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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