Love Destroyed Quotes

#1. The agony of love destroyed often leaves us swearing never to love again.

Ruben Papian

#2. This feeling that the world was so pleased to call love destroyed people every day and it would do that to me too.

Julie Murphy

#3. The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.

George Orwell

#4. To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed

Cassandra Clare

#5. Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist. But they don't. And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Samuel Johnson

#7. To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Jo Nesbo

#8. Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning.

Rajneesh

#9. We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

John Ruskin

#10. Minutes turn into hours, and lifetimes into moments. Universes are created and destroyed with nary a pop. What was saved, no longer ex- ists. What was lost, no longer matters.

D.L. Orton

#11. Nothing except luck protects you from catastrophe. Not love. Not money. Not faith. Not a pure heart or good deeds
and not bad ones either, for that matter. We can, any of us, be laid low, cut down, diminished, destroyed.

Therese Anne Fowler

#12. If anything happened to you, I'd be so destroyed they'd have to strap me to a bed and feed me through a tube. After five or six years, I might be capable of taking care of Rex. In the interim, you should assign a guardian.

Janet Evanovich

#13. Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance.

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

#14. Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred which is completely vanquished by love, passes into love; and love is thereupon greater, than id hatred had not preceded it.

Baruch Spinoza

#15. But hurry! so united, entwined,
mouths broken by love and soul bitten,
time will find us destroyed

Federico Garcia Lorca

#16. Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#17. How are you going to get revenge against dead people? Dig 'em up and stake 'em through the heart?"
"I asked myself that same question, and I think I know the answer. You destroy what they loved, and you love what they destroyed.

Tiffany Reisz

#18. I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

Anais Nin

#19. I stand in the presence
of the destroyed god:
a rubble of tendons,
knuckles and raw sinews.
Knowing that the work is mine
how can I love you?

Margaret Atwood

#20. Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises.

Edmond Manning

#21. Girls like me don't get the fairytales.
Because the white knights never want the dirty, damaged girls.
They know there's nothing left of us that's salvageable...nothing left of us that hasn't already been taken and destroyed.
And saving us? Will only ruin them.

Ashley Jade

#22. If I thought there was even a single shred of a chance you'd still be alive, then I would have destroyed the entire world to find you. You're my brother. I love you. Please understand that none of what happened was within either of our power to change.

L. H. Cosway

#23. Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

Kirby Wright

#24. I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

Alain De Botton

#25. a body betrayed
a heart destroyed
a mind in confusion
and yet a woman
is capable of taking pain
and transforming it into triumph

R H Sin

#26. This wasn't love. It was hate. And love. That fine line had been destroyed. Mutilated.

Madeline Sheehan

#27. I wish that people would stop destroying other people just because they were once destroyed.

Karen Salmansohn

#28. Ordinarily we think sex makes people loving - sex can never make people loving. In fact, it is sexuality that prevents love from growing - because it is the same energy that has to become love. It is being destroyed in sex. To become love, the same energy has to move to the heart centre.

Rajneesh

#29. How you, a weak boy caught in the middle of a storm, both in reality and metaphorically, would risk your life to save some girl - some girl who tortured you, ignored you, destroyed you.

J.X. Burros

#30. Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love

Anton Szandor LaVey

#31. Mis-define the law of brotherly love by giving men a claim on their neighbors and you have destroyed freedom, justified despotism, and assumed that there can be a master mind, in an ordinary human being, as the mind of God.

Frederick Nymeyer

#32. Fine. The next time that my life is destroyed, I'll try to express my distress in a quieter fashion, far away from your tender sensibilities.

Colleen Houck Ren

#33. Look at them all. Rats in their cages ... their lives destroyed by love. I'm done with it. I won't be like them.

Jennifer Flackett

#34. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest.

John Steinbeck

#35. It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are to be more than sanctuaries; they should also be places where God's Spirit can dwell, where the storm stops at the door, where love reigns and peace dwells

Thomas S. Monson

#36. If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Baruch Spinoza

#37. Kindness lives. It is real and tangible and it lives somewhere and will always be there. Kindness and love is matter and cannot be destroyed, but it can be recalled and found over and over again. It's out there. It lives.

Donald S. Smurthwaite

#38. I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

Jeanette Winterson

#39. I was obsessed with finding redemption. Destroyed by love. Possessed by hope. Consumed by a past I couldn't shake.

Pepper Winters

#40. But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#41. There's days when I'd love everybody to relize that things have gone too far, and we need to be born again ... but there are other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybody's stepped on me my whole life.

Marilyn Manson

#42. Some Memories are better be destroyed.. you never know when do you fall in love with someone, and when you're kicked out.. it's life, crazy enough!

Himmilicious

#43. 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

#44. But you mark my words: I will be there when everything you love is destroyed. Everything you didn't even believe you would have.

Ana Franco

#45. To love is to destroy, and to be the one loved is to be destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

#46. How can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb or a noun would be destroyed in front of you

Jacques Derrida

#47. I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.

Karen Kingsbury

#48. We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other's dreams.

Kate Chisman

#49. When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

Jodi Picoult

#50. Not the kind of love that was fueled by need and that destroyed cities and entire civilizations, but the kind that rebuilt them, that much I knew.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#51. Let her destroy me if she will. Better to be destroyed by her love than to never have known it. Erik

Book 2~Chanson de l'Ange: The Angel's Song

Paisley Swan Stewart

#52. Love can end. It isn't permanent by nature, whatever the weavers of fairy tales want to suggest. Forever takes hard work, and is destroyed by lies.

Christine Amsden

#53. And like the missing chips in this china, pieces of my spirit were also gone, destroyed by people who claimed to love me.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#54. Hi, Your Majesty, we drugged your love muffin and then let her walk out into the dark, in the snow. Her apartment is destroyed and we're not sure where she is ...

Ilona Andrews

#55. How could he love her when she'd destroyed so much?

Katie McGarry

#56. Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

George Bernard Shaw

#57. Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent. Your attention becomes innocent.

Nirmala Srivastava

#58. He set out to destroy me, but he fell in love with me instead. I fell in love with him, and that's what destroyed me in the end.

J.M. Darhower

#59. If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

Saint Augustine

#60. My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.

Quentin Tarantino

#61. Perhaps he was probing the enigma of why men fall in love with their dreams, which are then so destroyed by harsh realities that their dreamers become cuckolded by their own illusions. Perhaps...

Juan Filloy

#62. Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.

E.J. Koh

#63. What madness destroyed me and you, Orpheus?

Virgil

#64. What is it like? Manon asked quietly. 'To love.' 'It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. I hated it, because I knew I couldn't escape it, and knew it would forever change me.'-Asterin/Manon

Sarah J. Maas

#65. Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

Anne Rice

#66. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Oscar Wilde

#67. Love is in constant motion, it is the energy which was created when you were born and it will never be destroyed.

Santosh Kalwar

#68. I would rather be destroyed by you than loved by anyone else.

C.J. Carlyon

#69. Love is misunderstood by many.
Love is to be in the state of calmness even when everything is getting destroyed of you & around you.
Love is to be Permanent in the law of impermanence.

Chetan M. Kumbhar

#70. He smashed all my reservations that he couldn't give me what I desired and proved love could change anyone - no matter how destroyed.

Pepper Winters

#71. Was Lucifer a demon determined to ruin Eve and spawn a species of monsters? Or was he a fallen angel so in love with a human woman he destroyed paradise for a kiss? We will never know. And perhaps we shouldn't ask why Lucifer tempted Eve at all, but another question: Why did she give in?

Sylvia Frost

#72. To love is to be destroyed, and to be loved is to be destroyed.

Cassandra Clare

#73. I see real love as the most fundamental of our innate capacities, never destroyed no matter what we might have gone through or might yet go through.

Sharon Salzberg

#74. It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

G.K. Chesterton

#75. Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.

Mother Teresa

#76. Love is the highest form of energy. It cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be transmuted.

Tapan Ghosh

#77. To love is to destroy, to be the one loved is to be the one destroyed

Cassandra Clare

#78. I can't say for sure what I feel, and love has already destroyed me once.

Paulo Coelho

#79. I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

Mackenzie Davis

#80. Even if they can find a lover they demand perfection, and the love is destroyed because of that demand.

Osho

#81. The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#82. That was the problem with love, though, wasn't it. It couldn't be helped, couldn't be controlled. It just roared in and took whatever it wanted, destroyed whatever it wanted; the most dangerous addiction of all, because nobody survived it intact.
But an addiction that was impossible to let go.

Stacia Kane

#83. Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#84. But for an immortal to love a mortal, that had been the destruction of gods, and if gods had been destroyed by it, Magnus could hardly hope for better.

Cassandra Clare

#85. I thought you were gone forever, I thought you'd walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn't.

Alexandra Adornetto

#86. We're soul mates," he says. "We are forever. Our kind of love cannot be destroyed.

Stacey Jay

#87. I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#88. Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#89. He had destroyed and shattered my love only to conquer it again.

J.C. Reed

#90. Here's what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it's like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It's like constantly collapsing and reforming. And I think a lot of people feel that. I think that love is the answer and that's the only thing that matters.

Andrew VanWyngarden

#91. While violence is necessary, it is not the only instrument for change. There are others just as good. But you must accept violence- you cannot begin to build until you have destroyed. You don't know love until you have hated.

F. Sionil Jose

#92. Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

Rajneesh

#93. When the things you love exist only inside your memory they cannot be destroyed or taken from you.

Marina Tavares Dias

#94. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed.

George MacDonald

#95. Proverbs 19:8-9 8 To acquire wisdom is to love yourself; people who cherish understanding will prosper. 9 A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will be destroyed.

Anonymous

#96. Why don't you like getting close?' Marianne insisted. 'Is it because you might get hurt?'
Owen shook his head. He still couldn't look at her. 'It's because it's never permanent. Everything dies. Everything gets destroyed. Even love. So we just make the best of it-get our pleasure where we can.

Andy Lane

#97. The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

Jeannette Walls

#98. It's impossible. I can't be your friend. It hurts too much. If I'm ruining you, then you've destroyed me. I finally trusted someone enough to love and you proved that all along it wasn't worth it.

Kimberly Lauren

#99. He was changed, burned, branded, destroyed and rebuilt. And he loved it.

Jess Michaels

#100. Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness ... Love will never die.

Bryce Courtenay