Quotes About Abusive Love

#1. When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care.

Bell Hooks

#2. Happiness is that butterfly which comes and sit in your garden until you try to grab it, The moment we try to grab it, it flies off, so never try to grab it, just let it go, because it will come back again for search of honey and to give you happiness again.

Debolina Bhawal

#3. You don't understand," she said meekly. "Really? Okay, you're a special case then, are you? Unlike all the others in abusive relationships, your man really does love you. He's a good man deep down. Tells you he'll change.

Steve McHugh

#4. Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. anger cancels good judgement!

Sister Souljah

#6. You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on, but that doesn't achieve results.

Maria V. Snyder

#7. I am done looking for love where it doesn't exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

Maggie Young

#8. I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.

David Rakoff

#9. Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. You fall in love with it a little. Depression. It's an abusive romance. It hurts like hell but you don't want it to stop, because at least hurt is a feeling. At least it reminds you you're still alive.

Leah Raeder

#11. Don't waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.

Les Brown

#12. I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.

Tom McVie

#13. A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Aristotle.

#14. So while I was busy saving you from Hell,
you were pushing me further to it; the poison murdering me well.

Shannon Perry

#15. i can't tell if my mother is
terrified or in love with
my father it all
looks the same

i flinch when you touch me
i fear it is him

Rupi Kaur

#16. Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#17. I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

Tawni O'Dell

#18. Everyone has a watched life. Everyone is both the observer and the observed.

Akiane Kramarik

#19. Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.

Geoffrey Hill

#20. When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
Snoop Dogg.

Snoop Dogg

#21. Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy.

Sharon Salzberg

#22. The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

Jimmie Johnson

#23. I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.

Maureen Brady

#24. I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

Morgan Matson

#25. When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better.

Stephen Richards

#26. Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.

Rufus Wainwright

#27. The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

Tatum O'Neal

#28. I love it when I meet a woman who was poor as a child and maybe had an abusive family, and broke out and found the one and they're married with a very healthy home and children, and they've let go of regret and their past and decided to embrace their journey and what that stands for.

Abbie Cornish

#29. A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

Bryant McGill

#30. Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

Warren Farrell

#31. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked. Genesis 3:7.

Jonny Cox

#32. In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.

Toni Sorenson

#33. Those who claim that they can't change because people don't change, are being selfish, ignorant and abusive. They deserve no friends and no love. They deserve to be ignored.

Robin Sacredfire

#34. Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Theodor Adorno

#35. In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.

Mark Haskell Smith

#36. I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny ... again.

Cassandra Giovanni

#37. I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Kevin Rose