Top 100 Love Does Not Quotes
#1. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#2. He said, "A new commandment I give you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you." And how had he loved them? Not by feeling emotional! But He washed their feet anyway, because love does not do what it feels, it does what is needed.
Nick Harrison
#3. True love does not put a person in a cage like a bird. It gives true freedom to soar.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Love does not blind and it can't; only those lovers sometimes do blind.
Oladosu Feyikogbon
#5. I'm learning love does not express itself the way I thought it would.
Katie Kiesler
#6. Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.
Criss Jami
#7. The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.
James M. Barrie
#8. Love does not reflect. Love is simple. Love never mistakes. Likewise believe and trust without reflection, for faith and trust are also simple; or better: God, in whom we believe and in whom we trust, is an incomplex Being, as He is also simply love.
John Of Kronstadt
#10. I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.
Orson Scott Card
#11. Love does not have gender. Love is not exclusive! Our hearts have the capacity to love so many people. The only tragedy is when fear, cultural barriers, ridiculous misunderstandings, or arbitrary numbers prevent us from experiencing the joy we could have.
Nadia Scrieva
#12. Love does not hurt people. Fear does.
Jeff Erno
#13. Love gives nothing but itself, and takes nothing but from itself. Love does not possess, nor would it be possessed. And do not think that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
Kahlil Gibran
#15. Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.
Tad Williams
#16. Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Anonymous
#17. Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway.
Bryant McGill
#18. I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.
Sandra Cisneros
#19. I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#20. What I feel for you...it can be neither quantified nor defined. It is so profound, so revolutionary, that no methods to date are equipped to even measure it. A new word should be imagined just to express the depth and scope of it, because 'love' does not even come close.
Joanna Shupe
#22. Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#23. It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Muriel Spark
#25. Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. Love does not claim materialistic possession of any kind, it yields complete freedom.
Santosh Kalwar
#27. Love does not grown on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional)LOVE..
Kabir
#29. Loyalty is important, one of the most important character traits we can have. But loyal love does not mean infinite and/or misplaced responsibility for another's life, nor does it mean that one forever puts up with mistreatment out of inappropriate loyalty.
Henry Cloud
#31. Love does not come and go; we are the ones who come and go.
Robert Holden
#32. Love does not call us to the dance only to deny us chances . There is consistency in this journey. As in the beginning, so shall it be in the middle and the end. Love does not tempt us to leave what we know, only to leave us without direction, resources, synergy and flow.
Tama J. Kieves
#33. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#34. Whoever extolls him as a God of love, does not think highly enough of love itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. Love does not mean just joining lips and belly. It is much more. One should have respect for the other.
Girdhar Joshi
#36. Anxiety is a sign that you have made up a story contrary to reality. Love does not fear.
Alan Cohen
#38. Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#39. I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.
Cassandra Clare
#40. Having God's unconditional love does not mean you have God's unconditional approval.
Miles McPherson
#41. Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
George Eliot
#42. But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#43. That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!
Hermann Hesse
#45. People who love each other don't bargain. Love has no such thing as business. Love has no conditions, because love does not obey time and space.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#46. The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. - Bobby Goodspeed
James Howe
#47. Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse,
and the rational need for a mate in life
Leo Tolstoy
#48. True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.
Monica Johnson
#49. Love is patient, love is kind and not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered...
Adrian Del Valle
#50. Her self-respect had suffered a head-on collision with love, a clash that generally only ends one way. Love does not fight fair. In that moment her pride, the gut knowledge that she was right, even her sense of who she was, meant nothing, faced as she was with the prospect of being unloved. Faith
Frances Hardinge
#51. One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
Mary Balogh
#55. Love does not measure qualities, nor sets any standards. Love happens.
Auliq Ice
#56. This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life ... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love ... does not conquer all.
George Huang
#57. There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.
Maimonides
#58. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres! ~Lucian Bane~
Lucian Bane
#60. As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.
John Templeton
#61. The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories - love lives in the present.
Bryant McGill
#62. Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.
Irvine Welsh
#64. Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.
Haidji
#65. Unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.
Elle Newmark
#66. True love does not have limits or restrictions. True love allows a person to love deeply and unconditionally. True love does not ask you to let go of life. True love encourages you to live.
Heather Lyons
#67. Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.
Sreesha Divakaran
#68. Love does not end when we don't see each other.
Sarah Miles
#69. Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.
Adi Da
#70. Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.
Harold Klemp
#71. Would you not marry even for love?'
'Love does not seem to bring anyone much happiness as far as I have observed. So I think the lesson learned is never to love.'
'The lesson is to love wisely,' he replied.
Sharon Shinn
#72. Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.
Charles Du Bos
#74. Love does not depend on understanding; understanding depends on love.
Marty Rubin
#75. Love has no weapons; it has no fists. Love does not bruise, nor does it draw blood.
Pat Conroy
#76. When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.
Julian Barnes
#77. The third element of love is mudita, joy. True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#78. The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
James M. Barrie
#79. True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.
Pope Francis
#80. Love does not wear out the heart, even if it weighs a thousand tons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#81. Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.
Shane Claiborne
#82. Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain.
Madeleine L'Engle
#83. You don't love people for what they can give you. You don't love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.
Shelly Crane
#85. Because being in love does not give you any excuse to be less than honorable, Lady
Tremaine.
Sherry Thomas
#86. Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.
Leon Bloy
#87. Love is not proud. Love does not boast. Love, after all, matters the most. Love does not run. Love does not hide. Love does not keep locked inside. Love is the river that flows through. Love never fails you.
Brandon Heath
#89. The pain of love does not break hearts, it merely seasons them. The disappointed heart revives itself and grows meaty and piquant. Sorrow expands it and makes it pithy. The spirit, on the other hand, can snap like a bone and may never fully knit
Tom Robbins
#90. Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#91. There will be nothing which the fullness of His love does not replenish.
Francis De Sales
#92. So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.
Harry Harlow
#94. That life is far too short to waste on grudges. Love does not come along often. When it does, you can't throw it away because it isn't perfect.
Sophie Oak
#95. Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.
Bell Hooks
#96. You are a story. do not become a word. one word. because you want to be loved. love does not ask you to be nothing for something.
Nayyirah Waheed
#97. Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.
Jin Sun Mi
#98. So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.
Fulton J. Sheen
#99. Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.
Maximus The Confessor
