Top 100 Abuse Love Quotes

#1. In truth, if it isn't to save your life when it's in imminent danger, someone yelling at you is just plain wrong. The same is true for ranting or bitching. The same goes double for anything even close to manhandling.

Cathy Burnham Martin

Abuse Love Quotes #1151499
#2. Children have rights outside their mother's womb without having to be victim's of Domestic Violence inside their mother's womb.

Sheree' Griffin

Abuse Love Quotes #1392179
#3. The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?

George Berkeley

Abuse Love Quotes #1378021
#4. This is not love. It is a crime ... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

Salma Hayek

Abuse Love Quotes #1373041
#5. How I wish, how fervently I ache, to take my mother's hand, kiss her check,tell her I love her, and watch her smile. For me it was not, nor can ever be. But for you, reach out now. Reach out for your mother's hand-the hands of those you love. Say I love you.
Don't wait.

M.J. Burke Sr.

Abuse Love Quotes #1349309
#6. Being alone is better than being your whore.

Lori Jenessa Nelson

Abuse Love Quotes #1322584
#7. Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Asa Don Brown

Abuse Love Quotes #1239742
#8. Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.

Davey Havok

Abuse Love Quotes #1209251
#9. Roarke is her everything, as she is his. It matters, I think, that these two people who came from abuse and viciousness found each other, helped make each other into better people. Love opened them to more.

Nora Roberts

Abuse Love Quotes #1191405
#10. I love being from a screwed up family. We have everything in my family: prescription drug abuse, mental illness, one of my uncles is a Mormon.

Christopher Titus

Abuse Love Quotes #1170916
#11. When Bill Burke asked my mother out, she experienced the unluckiest day of her life. Diana (to become my high school sweetheart-and wife) agreeing to go out with me was the luckiest day of my life.

M.J. Burke Sr.

Abuse Love Quotes #1169620
#12. Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

Jess C. Scott

Abuse Love Quotes #1154859
#13. Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

George Washington

Abuse Love Quotes #1152087
#14. Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

Voltaire

Abuse Love Quotes #1404137
#15. I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

Andrew Solomon

Abuse Love Quotes #1134989
#16. you remind me of someone i knew. looked just like you but kind.

Taylor Rhodes

Abuse Love Quotes #1131380
#17. If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office.

Linda Pohl

Abuse Love Quotes #1129404
#18. When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care.

Bell Hooks

Abuse Love Quotes #1119641
#19. Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once, I'll let it slide.' Love is happiness, not being neglectful, caring, being respectful, providing, having standards, kindness, standing up for the right things.

Jahmene Douglas

Abuse Love Quotes #1109435
#20. When pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

Gloria Steinem

Abuse Love Quotes #1095907
#21. Criticism hurts most because it comes from another person and abuse is most damaging when it comes from someone who should love us.

Dave Mearns

Abuse Love Quotes #1047196
#22. And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

Dave Pelzer

Abuse Love Quotes #1022231
#23. A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.

Sharon Salzberg

Abuse Love Quotes #1006701
#24. I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.

Abbey Clancy

Abuse Love Quotes #1001789
#25. A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

Bryant McGill

Abuse Love Quotes #999354
#26. I am small.
So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.

C. Kennedy

Abuse Love Quotes #1585815
#27. He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It's as simple as that, and as stupid and complicated. It's terrible. It's like knowing someone you love is dead but not having the body to prove it. He loved me. I know it.

Roddy Doyle

Abuse Love Quotes #1870103
#28. All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

Alice Miller

Abuse Love Quotes #1869602
#29. I love the idea that an abuse can be negated. And that the things most often disabused are notions.

David Levithan

Abuse Love Quotes #1830627
#30. My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of faith, hope, triumph, and love. They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!

Livia Bitton-Jackson

Abuse Love Quotes #1823992
#31. I know who you are ... I've fallen hard for that person, and I sure as hell am not going to let you fade into your past.

Cassandra Giovanni

Abuse Love Quotes #1806566
#32. Love is how you treat someone.

Rick Cormier

Abuse Love Quotes #1800172
#33. Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.

Shannon L. Alder

Abuse Love Quotes #1775546
#34. Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Abuse Love Quotes #1700255
#35. They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?"
"You'd think so.

N.R. Walker

Abuse Love Quotes #1690321
#36. Children who feel unloved and unprotected are like a half-filled cup. They become incapable of 'filling up' because they have come to believe they are unworthy of love. They try to please others, give to others, and care for others in a desperate hope that they may make themselves worthy.

Beverly Engel

Abuse Love Quotes #1686058
#37. Love and abuse cannot co-exist.

Bell Hooks

Abuse Love Quotes #1651128
#38. Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

Thomas Pynchon

Abuse Love Quotes #1640967
#39. We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

David Elkind

Abuse Love Quotes #970706
#40. If love breaks more than a heart, maybe it's a sign and time to step out.

Anthony Liccione

Abuse Love Quotes #1583320
#41. More disturbing than hurt is love when it's wrong.

Ali Land

Abuse Love Quotes #1578106
#42. Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.

Ellen Bass

Abuse Love Quotes #1555736
#43. Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse.

Criss Jami

Abuse Love Quotes #1516852
#44. So while I was busy saving you from Hell,
you were pushing me further to it; the poison murdering me well.

Shannon Perry

Abuse Love Quotes #1515001
#45. the rape will
tear you
in half

but it
will not
end you

Rupi Kaur

Abuse Love Quotes #1503321
#46. Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

Bell Hooks

Abuse Love Quotes #1500936
#47. When you touch a man's body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man's heart he will remember it forever.

Dixie Waters

Abuse Love Quotes #1491161
#48. The kind of violence one should fear is always quiet and comes all wrapped up in words like Love until you live with it daily and you value only that which is valuable to the violator.

Shauna Singh Baldwin

Abuse Love Quotes #1477763
#49. I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused.

Anne Heche

Abuse Love Quotes #1472935
#50. Take away the love and the laughter, narrate the stories as if the characters had acted with malice and self-absorption, and everybody was in a bleak independent film about alcoholism and schizophrenia and child abuse.

Nick Hornby

Abuse Love Quotes #1464209
#51. When we resort to screaming at someone, we are revealing weakness and a sense of helplessness. If we can't seem to get our message or feelings across any other way, then we get angry, and we get loud!

Cathy Burnham Martin

Abuse Love Quotes #216670
#52. Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

Bell Hooks

Abuse Love Quotes #423211
#53. My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen - numb.

J. Kahele

Abuse Love Quotes #352365
#54. Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Abuse Love Quotes #328015
#55. That as long as I kept them apart, love would be sexless and sex loveless, endlessly repeating its cycle of self-denial and self-abuse.

Paul Monette

Abuse Love Quotes #318979
#56. I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it ... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.

Joss Whedon

Abuse Love Quotes #299015
#57. I don't want you to have to handle it. That's the horror of my past. But you ... you're the reality of my present. You're the proof I survived. The prize in the cereal box.

J. Kenner

Abuse Love Quotes #280376
#58. All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

Bell Hooks

Abuse Love Quotes #262569
#59. A true Christian does not see God's promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God's gracious forgiveness as the means to spiritual growth and sanctification. He continually thanks God for His great love and willingness to forgive.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

Abuse Love Quotes #255272
#60. From beginning to end, all this phony relationship can offer you is a toxic combination of fake love and real abuse. He constructs the psychopathic bond through deception and manipulation. You maintain it through self-sacrifice and denial.

Claudia Moscovici

Abuse Love Quotes #253638
#61. You have to love and respect yourself enough to not let people use and abuse you. You have to set boundaries and keep them, let people clearly know how you won't tolerate to be treated, and let them know how you expect to be treated.

Jeanette Coron

Abuse Love Quotes #248962
#62. It's not easy to be optimistic and hopeful after you come to know and love some of the young victims of sexual abuse, violence, poverty, neglect, drugs, and rape. It's taking me a while to climb out of this hatred, this noxious cynicism. I'm doing my best.

M.T. Johnson

Abuse Love Quotes #243312
#63. I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

Kris Kidd

Abuse Love Quotes #241383
#64. Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.

Richard Proenneke

Abuse Love Quotes #527159
#65. Abuse Is Not Love;Love Is Unconditional Without Stipulations and Restrictions.

Sheree' Griffin

Abuse Love Quotes #196274
#66. Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime.

Miya Yamanouchi

Abuse Love Quotes #188018
#67. Violet remembered that slap; later her mother had called it a "love tap," as if to further confuse love with pain.

Koren Zailckas

Abuse Love Quotes #163375
#68. The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4

Judith Lewis Herman

Abuse Love Quotes #93890
#69. Ignore the voice that scorns and ridicules to ensure it does not mold you. Stifling subtleties like these, if unchecked, are oppressive. Freedom is a love supreme birthright, not a privilege to be governed by any other.

T.F. Hodge

Abuse Love Quotes #83397
#70. If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

Big K.R.I.T.

Abuse Love Quotes #38676
#71. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold

Abuse Love Quotes #38039
#72. After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.

Joyce Meyer

Abuse Love Quotes #31170
#73. Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy.

Sharon Salzberg

Abuse Love Quotes #23803
#74. Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease.

Ryu Murakami

Abuse Love Quotes #22505
#75. A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

David Vann

Abuse Love Quotes #14819
#76. Isn't that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

Abuse Love Quotes #759658
#77. Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.

Jennifer Brown

Abuse Love Quotes #970329
#78. If the most connected we've ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we'll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.

Vironika Tugaleva

Abuse Love Quotes #963441
#79. An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught we were not okay, where we were shamed, verbally and/or physically abused, and emotionally neglected even as (we) were taught to believe that we were loved.

Bell Hooks

Abuse Love Quotes #953477
#80. LOVE is the greatest weapon for the ones who don't believe in it and for the ones who do its an emotional exploitation.

Amit Abraham

Abuse Love Quotes #943903
#81. One way [to recovery] would be by creating the best possible romance book or happy ending scenario for you ... out od your own experience. Another way would be to look at it as it is: a wake-up call to action to create a more humane world, without discrimination and sexism.

Elina Juusola

Abuse Love Quotes #917755
#82. Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Aldo Leopold

Abuse Love Quotes #899673
#83. Love is a funny thing. It's not at all what you expect it to be. But if you have to stand out on the corner to prove it, then maybe it's better not to be in love at all. - excerpt from: freefalling

Darlenne Susan Girard

Abuse Love Quotes #856425
#84. Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.

Vironika Tugaleva

Abuse Love Quotes #823546
#85. If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.

Bernie Siegel

Abuse Love Quotes #799727
#86. Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?

Colleen Hoover

Abuse Love Quotes #792244
#87. Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

Bell Hooks

Abuse Love Quotes #772520
#88. Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

Alice Miller

Abuse Love Quotes #768736
#89. The issue of animal use and abuse can seem insurmountable, it is tragic and it is complex. We love our companion animals and we value wildlife but we are generally blind to the realities of what goes into the food we eat.

Liz Marshall

Abuse Love Quotes #2406
#90. When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber

Ikechukwu Izuakor

Abuse Love Quotes #755372
#91. Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Jean De La Fontaine

Abuse Love Quotes #726325
#92. It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Abuse Love Quotes #690732
#93. Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

Victor Hugo

Abuse Love Quotes #680944
#94. The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Peter F. Hamilton

Abuse Love Quotes #678553
#95. In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.

Toni Sorenson

Abuse Love Quotes #627186
#96. so often victims end up unnecessarily prolonging their abuse because they buy into the notion that their abuser must be coming from a wounded place and that only patient love and tolerance (and lots of misguided therapy) will help them heal.

George K. Simon

Abuse Love Quotes #602594
#97. Dad was thirsty, not given to great displays of affection, like his father and his father's father before him. A long line of self-indulgent men who couldn't give love but lived to take it, which isn't the same as receiving it. They were all in so much pain and that's always the perfect excuse.

Courtney Summers

Abuse Love Quotes #586327
#98. People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.

Vivian Amis

Abuse Love Quotes #568608
#99. But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be
one big scar of a love gone wrong.

Amanda Grace

Abuse Love Quotes #555246
#100. We do not explain my husband's insane abuse
and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

Anne Sexton

Abuse Love Quotes #532156

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