Love Refuses Quotes

#1. She that in life and love refuses me,
In death and shame my partner she shall be.

Thomas Middleton

#2. What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.

Neil Cross

#3. A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. She refuses to be hit with Cupid's arrow. Shielded by the armor of chastity, she can't be charmed by words of love. She won't be assaulted by loving eyes, and she won't accept gifts of gold.

William Shakespeare

#5. 'I'm sorry,' he says. 'I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.'

David Levithan

#6. The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. Your love for her belongs to you. It's yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, thats all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!"-Monsieur Ibrahim

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

#8. Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

Shailer Mathews

#9. The true atheist is the one who refuses to see God's image in the face of their neighbour.

Shane Claiborne

#10. When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

Mark Van Doren

#11. There's a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it's actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them.

Jennifer E. Smith

#12. Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

John Dear

#13. To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#14. You're afraid of it because it's stronger than you, you hate it because you're afraid of it, you love it because you can't master it. You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#15. Love is suffering only when one refuses to love.

Marty Rubin

#16. Oh but the gods do so love me," I shared softly. "To give me a man who would allow his soul to be taken over by the darkness of night, for he's a man who loves so deeply, he lost those who had his love, was cast into the shadows, and he refuses to crawl to the light.

Kristen Ashley

#17. The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert.

Pope Francis

#18. I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

Andrew Breitbart

#19. The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.

Nick Cave

#20. Destroy! destroy! destroy! hums the under-consciousness. Love and produce! Love and produce! cackles the upper consciousness. And the world hears only the Love-and- produce cackle. Refuses to hear the hum of destruction under- neath. Until such time as it will have to hear.

D.H. Lawrence

#21. I sneaked a little bunch of grapes, which I love but can't ever have, because Mom doesn't like the way the grape pickers are treated in California and she refuses to buy them. *

Rebecca Stead

#22. The Lonliest Man in the World, she said, only has room in his heart for one person, and if he can't have that person, he locks himself away. He tells himself no one could possibly love him, but really, it's that he refuses to love anyone else.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#23. Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

Dick Gregory

#24. Sex will never be simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be,It is not fundamentally democratic or kind; it is bound up with cruelty, transgression and the desire for subjugation and humiliation. It refuses to sit neatly on top of love, as it should.

Alain De Botton

#25. I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.

Marie Lu

#26. I have cried an ocean for you but still your ship refuses to sail.

Michael Faudet

#27. Loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden.

Francesco Petrarca

#28. Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.

Charles R. Swindoll

#29. Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses.

T.F. Hodge

#30. True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

William Butler Yeats

#31. She draws back, yet refuses to lose skin contact. Golden light flickers across his face. He is the night, the stars. His soul shines so brightly, she could pour it into a jar, and it'd be as bright as the sun.

Laura Kreitzer

#32. Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

Therese Of Lisieux

#33. How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.

Gayle King

#34. Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.

Nathaniel Branden