Top 100 Love Abuse Quotes

#1. What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

Ezra Taft Benson

Love Abuse Quotes #1549
#2. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #2406
#3. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #14819
#4. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #22505
#5. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #23803
#6. After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.

Joyce Meyer

Love Abuse Quotes #31170
#7. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #38039
#8. If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

Big K.R.I.T.

Love Abuse Quotes #38676
#9. I told you when we mated that I would gladly give you my heart, my life, and my love, but that when I did so they came with one condition. Never abuse me. Love is not abuse.
Maxis

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Love Abuse Quotes #49453
#10. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.

Sheree' Griffin

Love Abuse Quotes #77822
#11. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #83397
#12. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #93890
#13. If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Love Abuse Quotes #100109
#14. Sure relationships include arguments, but pain is not a side-effect of love.

Tyler Oakley

Love Abuse Quotes #136274
#15. Violet remembered that slap; later her mother had called it a "love tap," as if to further confuse love with pain.

Koren Zailckas

Love Abuse Quotes #163375
#16. If love is a form of substance abuse, I hope to die high.

Crystal Woods

Love Abuse Quotes #177703
#17. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #188018
#18. Abuse Is Not Love;Love Is Unconditional Without Stipulations and Restrictions.

Sheree' Griffin

Love Abuse Quotes #196274
#19. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #216670
#20. Someone carries my belief that raises hope in me, but flame didn't last for long

Durgesh Satpathy

Love Abuse Quotes #217059
#21. Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

Jeffrey Kluger

Love Abuse Quotes #239318
#22. I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

Kris Kidd

Love Abuse Quotes #241383
#23. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #243312
#24. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #248962
#25. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #253638
#26. 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.

Love Abuse Quotes #255272
#27. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #262569
#28. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #280376
#29. Love doesn't conquer all; it's a powerful tool to overcome everything because it means you're not alone.

Stephanie Witter

Love Abuse Quotes #290728
#30. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #299015
#31. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #318979
#32. Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Love Abuse Quotes #328015
#33. Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It's a strange feeling. You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad, where you either love or hate them, but that's not how people are.

Trevor Noah

Love Abuse Quotes #341070
#34. My hands twitch as they tremble and every nerve and muscle in my body is frozen - numb.

J. Kahele

Love Abuse Quotes #352365
#35. Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else.

Dean Koontz

Love Abuse Quotes #387506
#36. As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

David W. Earle

Love Abuse Quotes #415107
#37. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #423211
#38. My mother's story continues to haunt me, it will until the day I die. My guilt and personal anguish is a good thing. It propelles me to strive to become the man my mother wanted me to be.

M.J. Burke Sr.

Love Abuse Quotes #441838
#39. Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.

Na'ama Yehuda

Love Abuse Quotes #508312
#40. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #527159
#41. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #532156
#42. Dont Abuse The Fact That Nobody Is Perfect For Your Over Imperfection.

Cyc Jouzy

Love Abuse Quotes #535660
#43. The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

Juliette Drouet

Love Abuse Quotes #536749
#44. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #555246
#45. People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.

Vivian Amis

Love Abuse Quotes #568608
#46. Love is the best drug, bar none.

Crystal Woods

Love Abuse Quotes #577751
#47. I'd represent "Love" when it sued hypocritical writers for abuse.

Natalya Vorobyova

Love Abuse Quotes #582181
#48. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #586327
#49. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #602594
#50. She realized in an instant that being around him awakened her, stirring the sediment that had long ago settled at the bottom of her well. He made her feel a part of him, of something larger, and somehow more alive.

Luna Saint Claire

Love Abuse Quotes #623188
#51. In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.

Toni Sorenson

Love Abuse Quotes #627186
#52. I wonder where love really is. Good feelings. Happiness. They're someplace, I know. I feel that. But without Father and Mother, how do I get there?

Susan Shaw

Love Abuse Quotes #650894
#53. The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

Peter F. Hamilton

Love Abuse Quotes #678553
#54. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #680944
#55. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #690732
#56. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #726325
#57. When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber

Ikechukwu Izuakor

Love Abuse Quotes #755372
#58. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #759658
#59. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #768736
#60. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #772520
#61. Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?

Colleen Hoover

Love Abuse Quotes #792244
#62. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #799727
#63. Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.

Helen Fisher

Love Abuse Quotes #813535
#64. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #823546
#65. Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.

Sheila Jeffreys

Love Abuse Quotes #824023
#66. I love you, Skye. You're in my heart, in my head, under my skin. You're my present and my future.

Stephanie Witter

Love Abuse Quotes #826821
#67. Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

Karolina Kurkova

Love Abuse Quotes #849382
#68. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #856425
#69. the message of spiritual abuse is always the same: "God won't love you, unless ..." or "God will only love you if ...

Jeff VanVonderen

Love Abuse Quotes #875712
#70. I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny ... again.

Cassandra Giovanni

Love Abuse Quotes #880977
#71. This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

C.J. Roberts

Love Abuse Quotes #896952
#72. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #899673
#73. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #917755
#74. He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love Abuse Quotes #922332
#75. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #943903
#76. Love brought out the worst in people, gave them free license to abuse each other.

Sophie Jordan

Love Abuse Quotes #952308
#77. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #953477
#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

Love Abuse Quotes #963441
#79. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #970329
#80. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #970706
#81. No one else "makes" us do anything. They can't make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us have to strike out at them, or make us drink alcohol, or make us yell at them, or anything else. We are responsible for our choices, including our responses and reactions.

Cathy Burnham Martin

Love Abuse Quotes #977377
#82. She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

Billy Joel

Love Abuse Quotes #982785
#83. A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.

Toni Maguire

Love Abuse Quotes #996246
#84. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #999354
#85. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #1001789
#86. When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force.

Ayn Rand

Love Abuse Quotes #1004038
#87. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #1006701
#88. Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

Donata Joseph

Love Abuse Quotes #1020375
#89. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #1022231
#90. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #1047196
#91. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.

Miguel Ruiz

Love Abuse Quotes #1066466
#92. Mostly you love them and you cherish their milestones but occasionally you do want to tape them to a chair. That would be child abuse, DO NOT TAPE YOUR CHILDREN TO CHAIRS. If you want to tape your baby dolls to chairs, be my guest. I am fairly certain that there isn't like a Cabbage Patch CPS.

E. A. Davis

Love Abuse Quotes #1070842
#93. Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We need to prepare them so they know who to tell, should a violation occur, so they don't have to live with a painful secret, long into adulthood.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

Love Abuse Quotes #1083944
#94. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #1095907
#95. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #1109435
#96. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #1119641
#97. Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.

Rumi

Love Abuse Quotes #1122332
#98. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #1129404
#99. you remind me of someone i knew. looked just like you but kind.

Taylor Rhodes

Love Abuse Quotes #1131380
#100. 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

Love Abuse Quotes #1134989

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