Top 100 Is Not Love Quotes
#1. Love is not popular. Not noble ... not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.
Ibi Kaslik
#2. You assimilate into her, like the Ganga assimilates into Yamuna and creates a third self. You won't ever hurt her in such situation. If this is not love, then what is?
Girdhar Joshi
#3. Love is the miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. I am not talking about vanity or arrogance ... for that is not love. It is only fear. I am talking about having a great respect for ourselves and a gratitude for the miracle of our body and our mind.
Louise Hay
#4. 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
#6. Your letter reminds me that any love that necessitates deception is not love. It doesn't matter if that supposed love is institutional or personal.
Kiese Laymon
#8. In my world ...
When you can't live without someone ...
that is not love ...
that is called an addiction.
Non Nomen
#9. There is not love of life without despair about life.
Albert Camus
#10. The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.
Hillary Jordan
#11. Eating well is a skill. We learn it. Or not. It's something we can work on at any age. Sugar is not love. But it can feel like it.
Bee Wilson
#12. It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
Samuel Johnson
#13. Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.
George Orwell
#14. All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it.
Anthony Trollope
#15. I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just one great best friend. You know, if you have somebody that has your back, you're gonna be all right.
Ethan Hawke
#17. Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.
Stevie Smith
#18. Sacrificing everything that you care about in order to make another person happy is not love. It's not really that some people are gardeners and some people are flowers, Arden. It's that we both must be both, each in our own time.
Leila Sales
#19. Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.
Silent Lotus
#20. The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
Vance Havner
#21. At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a
beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I
don't see how you do it. One hundred thousand university
students marching with you. Toward
A necessity which is not love but is a name.
Jack Spicer
#22. It is not true that "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." Love alters all the time; it is fluid, in perceptual flux, an evolving business across a lifetime.
Andrew Solomon
#23. Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.
Erica Jong
#24. And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.
Alexander Whyte
#25. She did love him, in that way that teenage girls love, like a lemming. Which is not love, of course.
Lisa Unger
#26. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. I'll begin with that. With Love.
Hillary Jordan
#27. This . . . this is not love. This is obsession.
Marie Lu
#28. Love is not wisdom, wisdom is not love. Keep that.
Mary
#29. I have to remember it is not love that has hurt me; but someone who could not love me in the right way.
R. YS Perez
#30. It is not Love that is the crime and it is not Love that is the sin. It is the absence of it!"
ARcher Tariq - "A Rising Darkness
Nikki Dorakis
#31. All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#32. 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
#33. Love is not cold and what is cold is not love.
Marty Rubin
#34. If you don't understand and you love, that is not love; it is something else.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#35. It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
Eric Hoffer
#38. This man would not kiss me as I like to be kissed but as he does. His way is too hard, demanding, dangerous. His way is not love. It is passion and it burns. Incinerates.
Karen Marie Moning
#39. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
Erich Fromm
#40. Attachment is not love. Where there is attachment there is exploitation.
Rajneesh
#41. To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.
Byron Katie
#42. You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.
Iyanla Vanzant
#44. The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire ...
Gay Hendricks
#45. What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#46. Your tolerance is not love. It is unfaithfulness.
Kevin DeYoung
#47. Love is a more powerful force than magic. You can trick the mind and even the heart, but never the soul. When a person is not free to love with their soul, that is not love and that is why a love spell can never truly work.
Nikki Jefford
#53. love is not love if it's not requited, right?
Nicola Yoon
#54. True love has no opposite. If your "love" has an opposite, then it is not love but a strong ego-need for a more complete and deeper sense of self, a need that the other person temporarily meets.
Eckhart Tolle
#55. May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.
Barbara De Angelis
#56. When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
Gary Zukav
#57. Thought with its emotional and sensational content, is not love. Thought
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#58. To dream on occasion is not dreaming,
To love on occasion is not love.
Dejan Stojanovic
#59. The idea is not love. The idea, the word is not love. But only when you have seen the whole movement of desire, attachment, pleasure, then out of that depth of perception comes this strange flower with its extraordinary perfume. That is love.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#60. Forcing some one to love you is not love that's called madness, Love is that feeling where force doesn't work, only happiness of the loved ones matter.
Debolina Bhawal
#61. Love is not love, which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.
Lynn Raye Harris
#62. It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?
Philippa Gregory
#63. Love is not about oneself, but about the other. It's not about keeping, but about freeing. Love is not love if not shared.
Cristiane Serruya
#64. You may know the pain of possessing and dependency, reducing persons to objects, but this is not love. Love doesn't attempt to bind, ensnare, capture. It is light, free of the burden of attachments. Love asks nothing, is fulfilled in itself. When love is there, nothing remains to be done.
Vimala Thakar
#66. Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love
Mother Teresa
#67. And if you have loved a man or a woman, you will want to give the other person as much freedom as possible. If love cannot give freedom, then it is not love.
Osho
#68. Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that sits on the shelf that you don't know what to do with, it is not true to the nature of love! Use love!
C. JoyBell C.
#69. I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.
Michael Learned
#70. Abuse Is Not Love;Love Is Unconditional Without Stipulations and Restrictions.
Sheree' Griffin
#71. I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.
Ruth Hurmence Green
#72. For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.
Kathleen McGowan
#73. When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.
Neil Diamond
#74. Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
Julia Cameron
#75. Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.
Benjamin Tucker
#76. With love there is no painful reaction; love only brings a reaction of bliss; if it does not, it is not love; it is mistaking something else for love." - Swami Vivekananda
Bhanu Prakash Singh
#77. Marriage is not slavery. It is based on a love relationship deeply rooted in freedom. Each partner is free from the other and therefore free to love the other. Where there is control, or perception of control, there is not love. Love only exists where there is freedom.
Henry Cloud
#78. Be loved for who you are, for everything that constitutes you. Be loved for your core beliefs, your strengths and weaknesses, your admirable traits and troublesome baggage. Be loved for you, because anything less is not love at all.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. Sometimes mercy is not a kindness and pity is not love.
Karen Maitland
#80. Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.
Barbara De Angelis
#81. If God is not a Trinity, God is not love. For love requires three things: a lover, a beloved, and a relationship between them.
Peter Kreeft
#82. It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of course. What it is is a queer feeling of nostalgia for an impossible future, for what can never be. That's fantasy. Love is different.
John Dufresne
#83. The absence of violence is not love.
A.S. King
#85. Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our
insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult ... Just as love for one
individual which excludes the love for others is not love,
love for one's country which is not part of one's love
for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.
Erich Fromm
#86. Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
Julia Roberts
#87. Love is not love that doesn't love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars.
Rumi
#88. Not being able to live without someone is not love. It's need.
Kerry Cohen
#89. It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force
William Woodruff
#90. Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Zedong
#91. When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing ...
Ang Lee
#92. I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible; God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap.
Ruth Hurmence Green
#94. Living in a story of a limited self - to any degree - is not love.
Sharon Salzberg
#95. In any case, it is not love, but friendship, that truly eludes you.
Michael Chabon
#96. Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Albert Ellis
#97. To die is to love. The beauty of love is not in past remembrances or in the images of tomorrow. Love has no past and no future; what has, is memory, which is not love. Love with its passion is just beyond the range of society, which is you. Die, and it is there.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#98. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
Kahlil Gibran
#99. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#100. It is not love that transforms the world, but pity.
Clara Winter
