Destructiveness Quote by Wilhelm Reich

For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.

— Neale Donald Walsch

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

— Gladys Taber

Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.

— Edmund Spenser

Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.

— Sarada Devi

People will experience a wide array of emotions in their lives, but love conquers all.

— Jackson Wang

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief…

— Leo Tolstoy

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

— Mohsin Hamid

People destroy what they love.

— Paulo Coelho

The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

— William Shakespeare

My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

— Tara Brach

The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’…

— Bell Hooks