Top 100 Love Opposite Quotes
#1. Hate isn't the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn't free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you've created a new person, a new life that you can live with.
Rasmenia Massoud
#2. Don't go in the opposite direction, locate your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#3. If you speak three languages you're trilingual. If you speak two languages you're bilingual. If you speak the language of the opposite sex, you can communicate.
Julieanne O'Connor
#4. Whatever power of the earth rampages, we turn to it dazed but anonymous eyes; whatever the name of the catastrophe, it is never the opposite of love.
Mary Oliver
#5. It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.
Randeep Hooda
#6. Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.
Vironika Tugaleva
#7. But only people you care about can hurt you. That doesn't mean I love her. Hate is not the opposite of love; not caring is. And as long as I hate her, I still care about her, and she has the power to hurt me. To make me hate myself.
Mik Everett
#9. Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.
Randeep Hooda
#10. They say distance makes old friendships fade away. They say with time and distance lovers forget one another. I find it quite the opposite. Distance, time, they all enhance the aroma of every moment two close souls once spent together, they magnify every little shared pleasure.
Carol Vorvain
#11. Loving yourself doesn't make you selfish. When done correctly, the exact opposite occurs, because you know that selfish behaviors are negative for your mind, body and spirit.
Donald L. Hicks
#12. People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
Gregory David Roberts
#13. Faith is like the sun. Some people are closer to the source of that love and light, and can bask in the warmth, while others are further away. Some look toward the light, while others face the opposite direction.
Brownell Landrum
#14. You need to accept the fact that you will often do exactly the opposite of what you think is right. You need to accept that you're going to do that and still love yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#15. First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
Anita Roddick
#16. the opposite of love is not anger - it is apathy.
Bob Proctor
#17. I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.
Christopher Eccleston
#18. My young friend, don't ever forget that while love and hate may be on opposite sides, they share the same coin.
Mary Anne Graham
#19. One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it's the opposite.
Brownell Landrum
#20. People are always warning me that I'm going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that. Opposite shows, opposite coasts, opposite demographics, opposite everything - I love it, man!
Michael Strahan
#21. Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.
Evelyn Waugh
#22. The prefect evening ... lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy ... Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.
Christopher Isherwood
#23. For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.
Malcolm Gladwell
#24. Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?
Judith Perelman Rossner
#26. The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Albert Camus
#27. Shockingly (to maybe only me), being in a relationship has done the opposite of limiting me. It's emboldened me to try something much scarier than I would have tried if I were alone. Maybe Rachel the Hasidic journalist was right: love frees you to be the person you actually are.
Kristin Newman
#28. I love the filmmaking process. It can be loud sometimes, and people love having conference calls, so working on a book is the polar opposite. It's very relaxing.
Graham Moore
#29. I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting myself love her was the opposite of falling - it was pulling myself up a cliff-face, hand over hand, the task as grueling as if I had no more than mortal strength.
Stephenie Meyer
#30. The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power
C.S. Lewis
#32. Anger isn't the opposite of love. Hate is, and the final form of hate is indifference.[17]
Scott Sauls
#33. Because love and hate were supposed to stand cleanly on opposite sides of the spectrum. The division seemed as clear as ... well, angels and demons would once have seemed to her. Not anymore.
Lauren Kate
#34. 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
#35. Whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.
Lisa Kleypas
#36. I think you have boundary problems," Groovy said.
"There's such a thing as too-strict boundaries, you know. You're all cut off from everybody."
"I am?". I felt just the opposite. I felt like I bled over everything, in an unseemly fashion, and my feelings for Sands was exacerbating this.
Rebecca Lee
#37. 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
#38. It's easy to think that people will like you more if you do whatever they tell you to do, but it's quite the opposite. People don't appreciate pushovers - they use them.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#39. Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive meditation upon the beauty of the opposite sex, which causes each one to wish above all things the embraces of the other and by common desire to carry out all of love's precepts in the other's embrace.
Andreas Capellanus
#40. I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.
Marilyn Monroe
#41. Indifference is more truly the opposite of love than hate is, for we can both love and hate the same person at the same time, but we cannot both love and be indifferent to the same person at the same time.
Peter Kreeft
#42. She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.
Susan Wiggs
#44. Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.
Jack Canfield
#45. You love the Hawaiians as potential Christians, but you despise them as people. I am proud to say that I have come to exactly the opposite conclusion, and it is therefore appropriate that I should be expelled from a mission where love is not.
James A. Michener
#46. There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over ... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.
Rebecca De Mornay
#47. Love should be according to Newton's third law that states: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Stefan Boldisor
#48. Remember, Lily, the opposite of love is nothingness - indifference. Hate and love are two sides of the same magic stone. What to worry about in this life is lack of feeling. Feeling nothing.
Heidi R. Kling
#49. Yet, it doesn't make us superfluous or unimportant, the fact that God doesn't need us,' I rushed on. 'Actually, quite the opposite. It's because He loves us in spite of not needing us that makes His love so, well, awesome.
Carolyn Weber
#50. The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
John Berger
#51. For love ... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
Virginia Woolf
#52. You know you're in love when the most interesting conversation you have with the opposite gender is about the one you claim to be in love with.
Andrew King
#53. Transgress. In a word, be other than yourself in turning into your love-soaked opposite.
John Ashbery
#54. What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.
Jordana Brewster
#55. Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'
Marc Jacobs
#56. Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live.
Sarah Wylie
#57. I wonder if he'd die if I did because I know the opposite is true.
Kitty Thomas
#58. The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
Steven Pressfield
#59. Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}
Alyson Noel
#60. I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
Morgan Freeman
#62. Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of community and is top-heavy with interesting, highly educated, socially progressive people - the opposite of the stereotypical image of dull public servants.
Judy Horacek
#63. Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward. Most people do the exact opposite: They only take action when they expect a reward, and they don't enjoy the action. And that's the reason why they don't do their best.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#64. There are two apparently opposing forces that govern our lives. No, not good and evil. Love and fear.
That's right: the opposite of love is not hate, but fear
John C. Parkin
#65. True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem of suffering, was a cross without Christ. We must never fall into the opposite and equal trap of a Christ without a cross.
Peter Kreeft
#66. The opposite is best. Whenever you're angry with someone, apply this maxim. I means doing the exact opposite of what your body's telling you to do. Believe me, it works miracles. Titus in Love in Lowercase
Francesc Miralles
#67. Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#68. Love has no opposite.
Hate, fear, are not love's opposites;
they are its denial.
Ivan M. Granger
#69. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
#70. Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).
Milan Kundera
#72. Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
Tammin Sursok
#73. You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
Adrienne Rich
#74. But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.
Gregory David Roberts
#75. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
William Shakespeare
#76. Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star ...
E. E. Cummings
#77. Later that evening in my diary, I wrote: I was exagerrating when I said I thought you hated the piece. What I meant to say was: I thought you hated me. I was hoping you'd persuade me of the opposite - and you did, for a while. Why won't I believe it tomorrow morning?
Andre Aciman
#78. I love to use these phrases - 'with the greatest respect', 'in all modest', 'I humbly submit' - which in fact always imply the complete opposite.
William Boyd
#79. The opposite of love is not hate. hate is just love gone bad.
The true opposite is Apathy. When u just don't give a damn.
Amish Tripathi
#80. She was my opposite, but I wanted to be like her. I wanted to fall in love underneath a tree, fast and hard. I wanted someone to forget me and then remember me in their soul, like her Caleb did.
Tarryn Fisher
#81. Love, joy, and peace are deep states of Being, or rather three aspects of the state of inner connectedness with Being. As such, they have no opposite.
Eckhart Tolle
#82. Understand that I am even ignored by the opposite sex on the internet.
Vann Chow
#83. I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all.
But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was.
Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#84. Love and I, we're on opposite sides of the galaxy. I'm pretty sure that bitch is hiding in a black hole to avoid me.
Briana Pacheco
#85. I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Leo Buscaglia
#86. You can say you love me all you want, but if you only ever act like the opposite's true, then I can't trust your words anymore.
Aimee Carter
#87. Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that he could no longer conceive of any suffering that didn't start with his wife.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#88. Reality rebounds, and things turn out the opposite of what they seem and what people expect. Strength becomes weakness; love becomes pornography; pleasure becomes boredom; and so on.
Os Guinness
#89. The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love-if your so consumed with hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them because your thinking about them for the same amount of time.
Marilyn Manson
#90. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#91. Of course it's all-consuming, but love- real love- doesn't destroy or smother. It's the very opposite of a weakness. Love strengthens. It liberates. It molds itself to every fiber of your being and fortifies you where where you may be broken.
Kerrigan Byrne
#92. The tail of a comet can extend millionsof miles into space, always in the opposite direction of the sun, blown by the solar breeze. A comets tail is the closet thing to nothing that anything can be. I love that. The closest thing to nothing.
Kelly Easton
#93. And when she said, Father, I love you, she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and truthful enough to lie.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#94. Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#95. They say love is blind, but for me it's the opposite. It makes me see the good in him, too, which is why I can never hate him.'
Mom (Fran)
Jack Gantos
#96. They faced each other at opposite ends of an illusion.
Andrew Holleran
#98. The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.
Kendrick Lamar
#99. Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but all things inspire really dirty improv and monologues. So then really dirty things can inspire the exact opposite. It's kind of a crapshoot.
Amy Poehler
#100. Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
G.I. Gurdjieff
