Top 100 Cannot Love Quotes
#1. In this room we understand why this war might be fought ... it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other
no matter what their species.
Deborah Harkness
#3. We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
Dorothy Day
#4. Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement ... We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
Paul Tillich
#5. If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.
Dalai Lama
#6. You cannot love anything or anyone more than you love yourself and you can't love yourself unless you see yourself whole. If you secretly disapprove of any part of yourself, you will secretly hate part of the One who made you. Can you understand that?
Ted Dekker
#7. Automatons cannot love; they can exchange their "personality packages" and hope for a fair bargain.
Erich Fromm
#8. 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 we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Nhat Hanh
#9. She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared
William Shakespeare
#10. In a world like that, there'd be no need for love anymore either. if everyone were perfect, there would be no need to look out for others. Sympathy or Love is needed because people are imperfect. A perfect human cannot love anyone.
Tamiki Wakaki
#11. For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
Albert Camus
#12. One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving
Amy Carmichael
#13. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
Audre Lorde
#14. Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
William Penn
#15. I always think I cannot love you more if I tried, but I always do.
Sherry Thomas
#16. Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators ... The land is one organism.
Aldo Leopold
#17. It is a perfect deception when you can lie to yourself and believe it. You cannot love two people the same. One will always fall by the shadows ... even if that one is you.
Michelle Horst
#18. We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.
Rajneesh
#19. The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
Cherie Carter-Scott
#21. We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
Bernard Meltzer
#22. I thought that you could not make a commitment until you were truly in love. What I know now is that you cannot love truly until you have made a commitment.
Kate Kerrigan
#23. What I cannot love, I overlook.
Anais Nin
#24. A man cannot love himself; he can only idolize it, and over the idol delightfully tyrannize - without purpose. The great gift which the simple idolatry of self gives is lack of further purpose
Charles Williams
#26. I cannot love you. Not today, not ever. It's a sin which I have to make.
Prassant Kevin
#27. If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
Gerald Brenan
#28. Once you live according to the rules, you will suffer. You will suffer because you cannot love spontaneously, you cannot enjoy, you cannot dance, you cannot sing.
Osho
#29. There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.
Samuel P. Huntington
#30. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#31. Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.
James Baldwin
#32. No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it.
Anne Bronte
#33. Remember that if you do not put your own well-being first you cannot love yourself and thus, you cannot truly love and be compassionate towards others.
Christopher Dines
#34. The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.
Thomas Jefferson
#35. The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
Bruce D. Perry
#36. If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.
Rajneesh
#37. We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
Zadie Smith
#38. Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
Simone Weil
#39. I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
Anne Bronte
#40. I cannot love a soul so dark it eats up others' light
Lauren Kate
#41. I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.
Nick Harkaway
#42. The heart cannot love what the mind does not know.
Jen Wilkin
#43. One cannot love his enemies just because he has been told to do so. He is able to love his enemies when his consciousness becomes the land of God and when he exists in this land.
Woo Myung
#44. Love was indeed a big responsibility. One must use the word judiciously. One cannot love one day and take away love the next day. It is total caring.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#45. Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
Hermann Hesse
#46. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane Austen
#47. One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.
Michael Flynn
#48. One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish.
Gabrielle Zevin
#50. When you are so wrapped up in seeking pleasure you cannot love, because the person who seeks pleasure uses the other as a means.
Osho
#51. But how are you going to die one day, Narcissus, since you have no mother? Without a mother one cannot love. Without a mother one cannot die.
Hermann Hesse
#52. You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next.
Eckhart Tolle
#53. Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
Sigmund Freud
#54. We cannot love 'our people' unless we love each of us ourselves, unless I love each piece of myself, those I wish to keep and those I wish to change - for survival is the ability to encompass difference, to encompass change without destruction.
Audre Lorde
#55. Again, all who are smitten with the love of books think cheaply of the world and wealth; as Jerome says to Vigilantius: The same man cannot love both gold and books.
Richard De Bury
#56. You cannot love properly and deeply without mindfulness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#57. So I will just say it. I cannot love you as a man loves a woman. I am so sorry if I have presumed what is not true or have taken liberties with your sentiments. I hope you can forgive me.
Shannon Hale
#58. If you cannot love yourself, you have no chance to love another person.
Matthew Ford
#59. Hate is often an obverse form of love.
You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love.
Sri Chinmoy
#60. Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.
Sri Chinmoy
#61. A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#62. One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?
Dada Bhagwan
#63. 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
#64. I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
Carl Jung
#65. You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what's going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.
Charlie Day
#66. Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us
Pablo Neruda
#67. I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
#68. It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.
Jane Austen
#69. Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
Thomas Malory
#70. 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 each person differently because of who they are and the uniqueness that they draw out of you.
Wm. Paul Young
#73. those who cannot find food for their enthusiasm in a knowledge of their country as it actually is, or those who cannot love men just because they are men - who needs must shout and deify their country in order to keep up their excitement - these love excitement more than their country. To
Rabindranath Tagore
#74. If you cannot forgive because of hurt inflicted by others, you will be unwilling to be vulnerable for fear of being hurt again. Because people are sinners, you cannot love and you cannot minister without getting hurt.
Walter A. Henrichsen
#75. To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate something until we've understood it.
Fernando Pessoa
#76. You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.
C.S. Lewis
#77. You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.
Cesar Millan
#78. Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.
Umberto Eco
#80. Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.
Gianna Beretta Molla
#81. I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
Sophocles
#83. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create
John Lennon
#84. Everyone understands that love comes in many different packages and is used in many different ways. You cannot love beyond your years, nor can you fail to love beneath them.In other words, I think you get the love you need when you open your heart.
Nikki Giovanni
#85. You cannot love God and tolerate evil. Psalm 97:10.
Felix Wantang
#86. You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.
Sri Chinmoy
#87. We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.
Mary E. DeMuth
#88. A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
Arnold Haultain
#89. Your God speaks of love, bur restricts who you love. I do not wish to be told who I can or cannot love. If I cannot love honestly, then it isn't love.
Jennis Slaughter
#90. He swore his love to me again and again until he finally realized that I cannot love anything right now. Falling in love is like holding a white flag out to your enemies and saying, "we give up, we're in love." Love is surrender.
Jennifer Lynch
#91. The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#92. But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.
A.S. Byatt
#93. I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone
Laura Marling
#94. You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.
Kris Vallotton
#95. I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Imelda Marcos
#97. On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each other that they are all overgrown boys. Of the love of fellows they know nothing. They cannot love each other in this easy, innocent, spontaneous way because they cannot love themselves.
Germaine Greer
#98. I try to love God, Reverend. I do. But I cannot love these men. I ... I hate them.
Hannah Kent
#99. Sociopaths cannot love, by definition they do not have higher values, and they almost never feel comfortable in their own skins. They are loveless, amoral, and chronically bored, even the few who become rich and powerful.
Martha Stout
#100. No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.
Raymond Charles Barker
