Top 100 Not To Love Quotes
#1. It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.
Stevie Smith
#2. You can't care what other people think of whom you choose to love, or not to love. When it comes to your love life, it's NOT the time to be satisfying other people's opinions. The difference between what's good for you and what's good for everyone else is happiness.
Chrissy Anderson
#3. Love must always start free - but its goal is to become unfree. To be unable not to love is the highest form of freedom in love.
Gregory A. Boyd
#4. I felt total bad about it, and empty. Granpa said he knew how I felt, for he was feeling the same way. But Granpa said everything you lost which you had loved give you that feeling. He said the only way round it was not to love anything, which was worse because you would feel empty all the time.
Forrest Carter
#8. Meg," he whispered. "It wouldn't be real love if there weren't the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn't choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That's why there's evil in this world, because there's free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#9. Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants.
C. Wagner
#10. It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
St. Jerome
#11. You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
Nora Roberts
#12. That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel De Cervantes
#13. I cannot think of what it was not to love him. To look at him and realise I had found what I had not known I was hungering for. A hunger so deep, so capable of driving me into the night, that it terrified me.
Hannah Kent
#14. He felt his heart roll, exposing its underbelly. Nothing he could do about that. He was equipped to eliminate threats, protect and serve. Not to love. Never to love.
Jill Shalvis
#15. A long time ago," said Michael, "I decided never to fall in love again. I have made of desire an anonymous activity." "But not to feel ... not to love ... is like dying within life, Michael.
Anais Nin
#16. I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.
Anais Nin
#17. It's far better to love impefectly than not to love at all.
Frederick Lenz
#18. Love Was
Love Will Be
But Most of All,
Love is.
Life Cannot Be Without It
It is found in the Womb
In The Woods
In The Stars.
To Be or Not to Be
To Love, or not to Love
They Are Equal.
My Soul Whispers Into the Spaces.
Yes.
Cindy Martinusen Coloma
#19. What is there in the world NOT to love? Other than enemies, drugs, diseases, traffic, morning alarms, people snoring, dishes, folding fitted sheet, YouTube ads, group texts you don't want to be a part of, taxes, unknown callers ...
Me
#20. Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
#21. God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.
Geraldine Brooks
#22. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel De Unamuno
#23. Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.
Neil Gaiman
#24. My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.
Dorothy Day
#25. Question is not whom I am going to love, but question is whom I am going not to love.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!
Mary-Kate Olsen
#27. Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you
Kristin Cast
#29. You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#30. How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we're shown?
Seamus Heaney
#31. There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
Jean Cocteau
#32. Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
Anacreon
#34. Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end.
John Piper
#36. Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.
Frederick Buechner
#37. He tried not to love that she could recite scenes from Ghostbusters, that she liked kung fu movies and could name all of the original X-Men - because those seemed like reasons a guy would fall for a girl in a Kevin Smith movie.
Rainbow Rowell
#38. Tenleigh," he repeated, his voice cracking. "Don't love me. Please don't love me. I can't stay here. Don't love me."
"It's too late." I shook my head back and forth in defiance. "It's too late. I'm not asking you to stay, but it's too late for me not to love you.
Mia Sheridan
#39. I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
Yann Martel
#40. It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.
Edith Wharton
#41. The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings.
Jim Warner
#42. Of course you love her!" he'd replied. "She's been your best friend since you both could walk, and now she's grown up to be beautiful, talented, intelligent and witty. What's not to love about all that?
John Flanagan
#43. I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.
C.S. Lewis
#44. They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
Victor Hugo
#45. Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.
John Madden
#46. Life is way too short not to love what you do, why you do it, and who you do it with.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#47. Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow.
Alan Jacobs
#48. My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh
anything but work.
Abraham Lincoln
#49. Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.
Christopher Buckley
#50. Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when you love as a game, you lose everything, as he lost his home and wife, and now he clings to me, afraid of loss, afraid of solitude.
Anais Nin
#51. Money or health? Career or family? Freedom or depression? All popular questions of nowadays derive from the only one: to love or not to love?
Mykyta Isagulov
#52. trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything. The
Lev Grossman
#53. To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it
Emanuel Swedenborg
#54. If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.
Sarah Dessen
#55. Loving someone that everyone tells you not to love.
Unknown
#57. Whatever. I've never understood what the big deal is about reading." He shuts the door and locks it, turning for the stairs. "Going to another place. Getting lost in time. Pretending that you're living a different life." He heads down the stairs and I follow him. "What's not to love?
Jessica Sorensen
#58. You have my permission not to love me;
I am a cathedral of deadbolts
and I'd rather burn myself down
than change the locks.
Rachel McKibbens
#59. I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.
Juliette Drouet
#60. He's entitled not to love me, but he's not entitled to mess with my happy place.
Emma McLaughlin
#61. It is impossible not to love someone who makes toast for you.
Nigel Slater
#62. The people can be forced to fear, but not to love.
Steve Berry
#63. It's easier not to love. Beware of the easy path this day.
Mark Hart
#64. Blythe turned the tables on him. She was genuine. Sweet. Protective. Nurturing. Everything he'd never had and didn't know he needed or wanted. It was impossible not to love her.
Christine Feehan
#65. One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.
Marty Rubin
#66. We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.
Ken Wilber
#67. Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can't stand not to love someone else.
Kiera Cass
#68. Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.
Eric Maisel
#69. It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
Jean De La Bruyere
#70. Love hurts, but that isn't a good enough reason not to love. The truth is, it hurts even more not to love
Catherine Gayle
#71. He made it so hard not to love him. When he was sweet like this, I remembered why I did. Used to love him, I mean. I remembered everything.
Jenny Han
#72. I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.
Paul Washer
#73. I love you, he said flatly. I
love
you. Shall I elaborate? I have loved you. I do love you. I will love you. I didn't want to love you. I tried not to love you. I will undoubtably regret loving you, but
God help me
I love you
so much.
Elizabeth Peters
#74. Ought we not to love dearly the neighbor, who truly represents to us the sacred Person of our Master? And is this not one of the most powerful motives we could have for loving each other with an ardently burning love?
Francis De Sales
#75. It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.
Colin Angle
#76. Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
Haruki Murakami
#78. Better to love for no reason than have reasons not to love.
Marty Rubin
#79. People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?
Bill Nye
#80. Whats not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction.
Emily Giffin
#82. In my childhood diary I wrote: I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
Anais Nin
#83. The one time I tried to get her to watch Pride and Prejudice, she hadn't been able to sit still. Granted, it was the six-hour version, but come on. What's not to love?
Alyxandra Harvey
#84. It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.
Adrian Tan
#85. No matter how bad things get, it's impossible not to love someone who made you toast. Once you've been through that crusty surface to the soft underneath and tasted the warm, salty butter you'll last forever.
Nigel Slater
#86. The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
G.K. Chesterton
#87. There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love it when on finds it.
Graham Greene
#88. You know I'm not trying to hurt you."
"Really? Then why does it feel that way? I love you. And you're choosing not to love me back. That hurts pretty damn bad.
S.D. Hendrickson
#89. Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.
Shannon Stacey
#90. Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#91. What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of.
Kerri Walsh
#92. To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
Mencius
#93. Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
Albert Camus
#94. There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?
Frederick Lenz
#95. It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
Lawrence Durrell
#96. Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.
Neil Gaiman
#97. The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything.
Lev Grossman
#98. I am a philosopher in the natural sciences. Matters of the heart I leave to the poets, but it has occurred to me, as a failed poet myself, that the cruelest aspect of love is its inviolable integrity. We do not choose to love - or I should say, we cannot choose not to love. Do you understand?
Rick Yancey
#100. 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
