Top 100 Not In Love Quotes
#1. Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.
Brook Tesla
#2. She was in love,
but not in love with
someone or something;
she was in love with her
life.
Robert M. Drake
#3. Catherine wasn't going to settle. Not in life, and not in love.
Karen Kingsbury
#4. I'm not in love. I'm not out of love. I'm just trying to find some version of the truth.
Gwen Ifill
#5. I'm not in love with him. I would never call it that. It's more of a growing fascination with him. He's unlike anyone I've ever known, but he's maladjusted and broken - unpredictable and frightening.
Amy A. Bartol
#6. From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We have always been in halves. As long as we invent and progress in mechanical things and not in love, we shall not achieve happiness.
Jean Giono
#7. (Passion always looks like sacrifice to people who are not in love.)
Kris Vallotton
#8. Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But I'm not in love with any of them. I am in love with my husband.
Ayelet Waldman
#9. A business that is not in love with its customers, but only the money they bring, should not expect love back.
J. N. HALM
#10. He's my best friend, and I love him, but I'm not in love with him
Kelly Oram
#11. Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
Plato
#12. I miss you when you're not there. When you're happy, it makes me happy. But I could say the same thing about Charlie, Jacob. You're family. I love you, but I'm not in love with you.
Stephenie Meyer
#13. She laughed, I love it when she laughs, although the truth is I am not in love with her.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#14. Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.
Jasmine V
#15. There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.
Theodor Reik
#16. It is a terrible thing to grieve for someone who is not dead, not in love with someone else, but just no longer there.
Priya Parmar
#17. If you're not in love with what you do, business will be really tough. You can do good one day, and bad the next. You can have a great year, and a bad year that wipes away all of your success.
Luis D. Ortiz
#18. Dean was not in love with himself. He was beyond stalker-obsessed.
Priya Kanaparti
#19. I don't want you to change, Bridgette. I'm not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be. I'm in love with you. Right now. Just like this.
Colleen Hoover
#20. My head got so heavy, it sank down into my chest. So say whatever it is you think you've got to say, St. John. That you're not in love with me. That you need to be alone. Say it. I'm not going to like it, no, I won't like it at all. But I'll be all right.
Helen Oyeyemi
#21. It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.
Bill Johnson
#22. You're not in love. You're a wonderful flirt, though. You can put that on your resume.
Ellen Sussman
#23. To "those about to marry," Ibsen therefore says in effect, "Be sure you are not in love!" And to those who are in love he says, "Part!
Henrik Ibsen
#24. He was not in love yet, but he realized that he was an attractive quantity to women, and that the fact of a woman caring for him and wanting to live with him was not simply a divine miracle.
Ernest Hemingway,
#25. One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.
Brandy Norwood
#27. God is not in love with some future version of you. It's not you tomorrow that He loves and delights in. It's not you when you get your act together ... If you believe that Christ's love for you is a future love for you, then you dismiss the cross of Christ.
Matt Chandler
#28. If you can hold back, judge people and differentiate between right and wrong you are not in love.
M.F. Moonzajer
#29. When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
Alain De Botton
#30. Life is complicated, love isn't. If you need to think about it for one half second, you're not in love.
J.R. Moehringer
#31. There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
Edward Abbey
#33. You can never play a part in life, especially not in love.
Sarah Jio
#34. If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
Rumi
#36. Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. You are not in love. Love is inside you longing for expression.
Debasish Mridha
#38. If you loveach other, whatever happens you can deal with it, you can work it out. Because if there's one thing I've learned, it's that it's really not much fun having an adventure with someone you're not in love with.
Lisa Jewell
#39. You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.
Ray Bradbury
#40. I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.
Salma Hayek
#41. We are not in love.
But if we were,
oh, we'd make it beautiful.
Alaska Gold
#43. You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
Catherynne M Valente
#44. But Ty? Deuce snorted. Not in love, his ass. Ty could fool Zane, maybe. He could even fool himself for a while longer. But Ty couldn't fool Deuce, not anymore.
Madeleine Urban
#45. You wish me to tell you all of my secrets? I am grateful, but I am not in love.
Robert Jordan
#46. When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.
Publilius Syrus
#47. Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world. When I'm not in love with someone, I feel empty and I can't think about anything but trying to find that someone.
Joshua Radin
#48. I'm not in love with him. I'm in love with the way he erases things.
Sarah Ockler
#50. My voice, when it emerged, cracked a little. I'm not in love with a ghost.
Jojo Moyes
#51. Then, she began to breathe, and live, and every moment took her to a place where goodbyes were hard to come by. she was in love, but not in love with someone or something, she was in love with her life. and for the first time, in a long time, everything was inspiring.
Anonymous
#52. I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.
David Nicholls
#54. Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love.
Rajneesh
#55. Admiral Naismith," said Quinn stiffly, "is not a dwarf. He's nearly five feet tall. And I am not 'in love' with him, you low-minded twit; I merely admire his brilliance. Professionally.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#56. The realization is surprising, but the one that follows stuns me even more.
I'm not in love with him anymore.
Instead, looking at him makes me feel ... hollow.
Stephanie Perkins
#57. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.
Josh Hutcherson
#58. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
Rumi
#59. I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them
with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
Eudora Welty
#60. I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. I have an awesome on him.
Megan McCafferty
#61. Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
Eli Broad
#63. You're not in love with him. You're just happy to be here. Really supremely fucking happy. And all hopped up on the fresh air and orgasms.
Melanie Harlow
#64. To be engaged to marry some one with whom you are not in love is an inevitable step in a world where the existence of passion is only a traveler's story brought from the heart of deep forests and told so rarely that wise people doubt whether the story can be true.
Virginia Woolf
#65. I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.
Gary Shteyngart
#66. Perhaps there are people in this world who love their fountain pens with every fiber of their being - and that's very sad. If you're not in love with him, you can understand him.
Banana Yoshimoto
#67. Ah. Falling in love is such a magical time." "We just met, Damian. I'm not in love." Damian laughs. "I am going to have you clean the stables today, since you are already so full of shit.
Deb Caletti
#68. If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.
Doug Liman
#69. You're not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.
Abby McDonald
#70. People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
Marcel Proust
#71. Were you in love with Emma?" I ask.
"I was hard-core obsessed," he says without thinking about it. "Not in love."
"What's the difference?"
He's about to throw a stone at ta yard light but stops. "Prison," he says, and puts the stone in his pocket.
Cath Crowley
#72. Jesus loves you ... He's not 'in love' with you.
Jimmy Carr
#73. All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.
Martin Luther
#74. Because nothing was sacred. Not in this world. Not in stones. Not in trees. Not in legacies. Certainly not in love.
A. Lynn
#75. If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.
Kevin Ayers
#76. He was not in love with her - they were about as unlike as two people could possibly be - but he was very fond of her and really missed her, as exasperating as she sometimes was.
Stieg Larsson
#78. You are the best part of my day, Tink. You make me feel whole and happy and when I'm not with you, I'm thinking about you. I'm not in love with you, but I know that I can't live without you.
R.L. Mathewson
#79. You're not in love with me. You never wanted to marry me, did you?' 'It was the twilight,' he said wonderingly.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.
Loretta Chase
#81. We are not in love. Not the way I've been told
being in love feels like. But we have been sleeping
beside each other for so many nights and I
am the most beautiful doormat you have ever
walked over.
Clementine Von Radics
#82. Do you think it's weird that we're not in love with each other?"
"No. I think it's perfect.
Suzanne Selfors
#83. I love you, Guy, and I think I shall go on loving you, but I'm not in love. I've had that and it was a torment, a humiliation and a warning. So now I'm settling for a quiet life with someone I respect and am very fond of and want to spend my life with.
P.D. James
#84. I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
Abbie Cornish
#85. I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.
Lisa Williams
#86. I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.
Michael Ondaatje
#87. Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust
#88. How can you say you're not in love with Hell?"
"Because I'm not in love with Hell." See? Not hard to say at all. It's true isn't it?
"Delusional much?
Jet Mykles
#90. Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.
Anton Chekhov
#91. Josh isn't in love with me and I'm not in love with him."
"Sell it to someone who's buying, Sunshine. Have you seen the way he looks at you?" I've seen the way he looks at me but I don't know what it means. "Like you're a seventeenth-century, hand-carved table in mint condition.
Katja Millay
#92. I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.
Paula Broadwell
#93. Anyone who is not in love with the life itself can never find real happiness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. Better not to work on things that you're not in love with.
China Chow
#95. I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in love ... I'm a very particular person, I'm not very much interested in short adventures with women or girls. I have to fall in love with someone in order to have a realtionship with her.
Omar Sharif
#96. Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.
Richard Hugo
#97. We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt.
Letitia Dean
#98. You're not in love with me, either, Layla. You just aren't. You felt a lot of physical shit, and that made you think it was emotional. The trouble is, body needs a hell of a lot less than the soul does to connect.
J.R. Ward
#99. I'm not in love with Bridgette," he says calmly. "She's my sister.
Colleen Hoover
#100. Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloating
Full in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletons
Various species grouped together according
To their past beliefs
The only way they ever all got together was
Not in love but shameful grief
Don Van Vliet
