Top 100 I Cannot Love Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone
Laura Marling
#5. No! I cannot love people whom I find that I look down on. I need someone who would himself master me, but then, goodness me, I shall never come across anyone like that. I will never fall into anybody's clutches, never, never.
Ivan Turgenev
#6. I try to love God, Reverend. I do. But I cannot love these men. I ... I hate them.
Hannah Kent
#7. I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
Emily Bronte
#8. I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go.
C.S. Lewis
#9. I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#10. If we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insult to me as a Christian to say that I cannot love as neighbor somebody who thinks differently than I do.
Miroslav Volf
#11. DEMETRIUS
... do I not in plainest truth
Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?
HELENA
And even for that do I love you the more.
William Shakespeare
#12. What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin
#13. One's first love is the most transformative and least replicable experience. I could love someone else, but it would be its own unfathomable emotion. It would not be this precious, first, spring love. If I cannot love her fully, it will be a love that corrodes within me.
Thomm Quackenbush
#15. I cannot love a friend whose love is words.
Sophocles
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.
Nick Harkaway
#20. I cannot love a soul so dark it eats up others' light
Lauren Kate
#21. I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
Anne Bronte
#22. Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.
Simone Weil
#23. I cannot love you. Not today, not ever. It's a sin which I have to make.
Prassant Kevin
#24. What I cannot love, I overlook.
Anais Nin
#25. I always think I cannot love you more if I tried, but I always do.
Sherry Thomas
#26. 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
#27. I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.
Catherine Deneuve
#28. My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."
Guillermo Del Toro
#29. The sun weeps because it can no longer caress your skin or warm your lips." He sifted his fingers through my hair. "I do not envy the sun, Eva. But I truly hate the moon, because its light touches you in all the ways I cannot.
Michele Bardsley
#30. Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.
Patricia Wentworth
#31. I will never cut it as a Quaker - I cannot find it in me to renounce all violence, not with two daughters under my protection - but I do love their silent hour, which in my case invariably evolved into a self-scouring meditation on the idea that the busy life is not the full life.
Michael Perry
#32. I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.
Vincent Van Gogh
#33. I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.
Anne Truitt
#34. Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.
Bernadette Soubirous
#35. I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.
Vironika Tugaleva
#36. That which we cannot see rules us," she said. She stared into her drink. "I mean particles, electrons, electromagnetic forces. Secrets. Love. Time. Fear. DNA. What we cannot see controls our lives." She
Eric Bosse
#38. His hands framed her face again, his amber eyes alive with love, with tenderness. "I want to make a vow to you. I'll love you with everything in me. I'll bring you as much happiness as I can give you. But I cannot allow your death, not at my hands. You're more important than I am.
Christine Feehan
#39. What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.
William Shakespeare
#41. William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed.
Viola De Lesseps: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.
Marc Norman
#42. It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you!
Nirmala Srivastava
#43. They have stopped my destiny,
as I have lost one that I love,
I must say it: I will die
because I have nobody now.
But what is done is done,
and you cannot change that.
Emma Iadanza
#44. She tore herself away, and went out. And I went away. I cannot describe the emotion with which I went away. I should not wish it ever to come again; but I should think myself unfortunate had I never experienced such an emotion.
Ivan Turgenev
#45. If My Body Language Cannot Help ... Falling ...
In Love By Your Challenges ... I Will Not Control.
Petra Hermans
#46. If I cannot be loving alone, if I can be loving only with someone I love, then I am not really mature yet. Then
Osho
#47. The God who is - the I am who I am - cannot act apart from love!
Wm. Paul Young
#48. I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.
William Shakespeare
#49. I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world
Anthony Trollope
#50. Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.
Wm. Paul Young
#51. Time cannot destroy it. I am that love - time cannot touch me. Time but changes the form. Somewhere in some time it will return. When you least expect it, the face of a loved one reappears. Look beyond that face and you will see me.
Christopher Pike
#52. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.
Andrea Bocelli
#53. I cannot do anything fake; that is why even when I sleep with a prostitute, she falls in love with me.
M.F. Moonzajer
#54. I am sorry " I murmured.
"I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair.
"I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark.
He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.
Deanna Raybourn
#55. Dearest darling, how I love you. Words cannot tell how much I love you. So forget it.
Charles M. Schulz
#56. You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly. Ci vedremo lassu, angelo.
Timothy Conigrave
#57. I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.)
for:
the "Work" by which (it is said) we emerge from the great crises (love, grief) cannot be liquidated hastily: for me, it is accomplished only in and by writing.
Roland Barthes
#58. This is Hasso. And yet not Hasso. This cannot be him. I love him too much for this to be him.
Catherine Von Bredow
#59. Ruark held the door open for her to pass through. "The first I cannot deny, Shanna, for then I did not know of you. But you are my only love and shall remain for as long as I live." His eyes were serious and seemed to probe her being. "I
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
#60. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.
Charlotte Bronte
#61. i am a woman
and i am alone,
and i cannot tell
which one of the two
i love being more.
AVA.
#62. Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened.
Elizabeth Kostova
#63. I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.
John Green
#64. Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Raymond Chandler
#65. I have learned to accept the things I don't approve and those I cannot change and I have learned to release and to love those who did the most hurtful things in my life. I must admit, it is the most difficult lesson to contain but it's worth it.
Euginia Herlihy
#66. I have been blessed by those I cannot see, but whose presence I feel. I know that I am not alone and hope that you, too, will find that, even in the most difficult situations, you are fully supported by the universe. All that is required is that you ask for help. It is there waiting for you.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#67. We cannot save the world without God's help, but He can't save the world without ours. We need His love; He needs our hands and feet. Today I give Him mine.
Marianne Williamson
#68. When someone cannot do without you, don't think he/she is weak. When he/she loves you, don't take that for granted.
Experience has thought me that we all have the power to fall out of love at the same pace we fall in it.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#69. Through the darkest hours of the night
and through the dreamers realm I seek,
Far beyond the starry sky
and beyond galaxies I am free.
Through the grimmest memories
and past a seasons air I cannot breathe,
Far beyond this mortal world
in an afterlife we shall meet.
Lee Argus
#70. What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.
Jed Rubenfeld
#71. Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.
David Livingstone
#72. I love you but you didn't bring me flowers. Your love is hanging on flowers! You are seasonal, conditional, demanding and bargaining. Love is not a bargain. Love is not a business. It cannot be bought and sold. It has no condition. When you put a condition on love, it evaporates.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#73. I want to share something you that Uncle Walter once told me: You don't choose who to love. Love finds you. I suppose what I'm trying to say is that you cannot, and most certainly should not, force your feelings...
Victoria Roberts
#74. As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.
Rajneesh
#75. I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of Losing love I guess I've lost Well, if that's love It comes at much too high a cost!
Stephen Schwartz
#76. I love you, William. I know I cannot ask you to be something you detest, no matter how much I want to be with you. But I love you.
Eli Easton
#77. I never understand why all of us are so stupid. All the time we nurse our spurious and witless ego, while looking deep down inside that we cannot live without talking to our loved ones.
Aakash Neeraj Mittal
#78. And I pray one prayer
I repeat it till my tongue stiffens
Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you
haunt me, then! ... Be with me always
take any form
drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
Emily Bronte
#79. The discoveries of my life that were of greatest significance (1) When I discovered love, (2) When I discovered faith and (3) When I discovered one cannot be without the other.
Tonny K. Brown
#80. Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
#81. Ada girl, adored girl, [ ... ] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.
Vladimir Nabokov
#82. The things that were once sweet to me are now bitter. The sun is not half so bright. The stars seem dimmer. All this wealth and luxury feels meaningless. All the world is in your shadow, Zahra. I cannot help but see you when I close my eyes.
Jessica Khoury
#83. I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.
Rex Stout
#84. I don't know how to explain Bob's love except to say it is utterly and delightfully devastating. You simply cannot live the same once you know him.
Bob Goff
#85. What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.
Helen Keller
#86. Loving her has become a part of my religion, a gentle mantra with every beating of my heart. I cannot imagine its Ragnarok without wilting.
Thomm Quackenbush
#87. How can you care for others if you cannot even care for yourself? How can you do good if you don't even feel good? I can't love
Robin S. Sharma
#88. Thus, I repeat, anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism are spiritually destructive and stupid. In the words of Pope Pius XI: "Spiritually, we are Semites." You cannot be a good Catholic until you've fallen in love with the religion and people of Israel. WALK
Scott Hahn
#89. But more I cannot wish you Than to wish you find your love Your own true love this day.
Frank Loesser
#90. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy one, I will indulge in the other.
Mary Shelley
#91. I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
A.B. Simpson
#92. Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#93. I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found. Why do I keep ignoring the place of true love and persist in looking for it elsewhere? Why do I keep leaving home where I am called a child of God, the Beloved of the Father? 9
J.P. Moreland
#94. Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: 'Isn't that that Bening woman?'
Annette Bening
#95. I would like to show you how to love as I love; and this sentiment alone would raise you above your kind. But human pride aspires to other enjoyments; its natural disquiet prevents it from laying hold of any happiness if it cannot envisage a greater one in the offing.
Jacques Cazotte
#96. 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
#97. It's important, no doubt, to understand the person we love. If we cannot manage this, it's necessary, at least, to believe we understand them. I must confess that over the entire eight years I only rarely enjoyed the contentment of the second possibility, let alone the first.
Orhan Pamuk
#98. What I never expected is how much nothing there is afterwords. In life,, he was not nearby. Now he is everywhere I dream and every place I wake. Or if not him exactly, then a nothing so much like him I cannot seem to wish it goodnight.
Jim Moore
#99. If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving ...
Isabel Allende
#100. I had been so mad at him when I left, I'd given them back. All except for the one that stuck to the bottom of the jar.
He smiled. "They're at home, waiting."
"For what?"
His eyes glittered. "That, I cannot say.
Kiera Cass
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