Top 46 Quotes About Loving But Not Being Loved
#1. Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship.
Steve Maraboli
#2. Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back ... then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.
Sarah Cross
#3. Being 36 years old changes you a lot, and so does eight years away from career, fame, needing attention, needing to be loved by strangers on some level. I was loving anonymity. I was loving the fact that I could meet a girl who didn't know who I was. I enjoyed it very much, I have to say.
Maxwell
#4. Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.
Robert Dessaix
#5. Do you love her?"
"Yeah."
"And that's a bad thing?"
"Because relationships end."
"What?"
"If I don't tell Aly how I feel, we'll stay friends. I can handle that. Friendship is real. It lasts, and it's safe."
"Loving someone, being loved ... it's worth the pain of losing them.
Rachel Harris
#6. Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.
Harold S. Kushner
#8. Giving a brief sermon, the Abbess once said, 'A hot furnace does not need to be heated. A loving heart does not need to be loved. Being loving is more important than being loved.
Gil Fronsdal
#9. Nothing has more potential for strengthening one's sense of well-being than effectively loving and being loved.
Gary Chapman
#10. Life's greatest adventure is love. Loving each other, loving others. And being loved--first by God, then by each other. There's no better purpose.
Melissa Tagg
#11. And it was always
without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of
finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#12. I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace ...
Pamela Des Barres
#13. If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.
Kate DiCamillo
#14. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao-Tzu
#15. No one, not even my father, not even my children, has ever loved me the way that man loved me, that's for sure. There's something satisfying in being loved that hard, maybe more than loving that hard yourself.
Anna Quindlen
#16. God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved.
Pope Francis
#17. Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together.
Haruki Murakami
#18. I loved him, every inch of his being, but i realised one day; if loving him meant losing me, than loving him was not enough anymore.
Nikki Rowe
#19. But there was nothing but the cold, hard truth that loving someone and being loved back was only the beginning, not the end, of all the pain.
Tiffany Reisz
#20. Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents and
purposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#21. It made no difference. Just to be in love
seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but true happiness.
Dodie Smith
#22. For in her stead. It's not the same, of course. But it's better to love others than to sit miserable without loving or being loved in return.
Rose Gordon
#23. [P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return
that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.
Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
#24. Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return
that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
Dodie Smith
#25. A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself
to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
Leo Buscaglia
#26. My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
#27. What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
Victor Hugo
#28. He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways of loving than there are ways of being happy, but it would take another book to explain them all.)
Francois Lelord
#29. Theres no misery in not being loved,
only in not loving
Rod McKuen
#30. Jesus does not want us to walk in a false humility that minimizes how much He enjoys loving us or how much He wants us to enjoy being loved by Him.
Mike Bickle
#31. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#32. Loving someone gives you courage; being loved back gives you strength. -Lao Tzu
Brandon Shire
#33. Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#34. We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
Jeanette Winterson
#35. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde
#36. I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!
Gloria Estefan
#37. I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack
Tana French
#38. Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.
Daniel Klein
#40. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.
Robin Hobb
#41. I guess I was better at loving then, too, and also better at being loved - the two go together.
Ann Brashares
#42. The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.
Benjamin Spock
#43. It should always make us happy to say that loving someone and being loved by someone is worth whatever price paid.
Susan Meissner
#44. Unfortunately, loving someone doesn't obligate them to love you back
J. Matthew Nespoli
#45. The trouble is that so many people, most of them women, think they have to have a perfect body to be loved. But all it has to do is be capable of loving---and being loved.
Nina George
#46. It makes it easier to wait for the man God has for me," Said Elly, "Because I already have the most important relationship. I can spend my life loving and being loved by the perfect Bridegroom. I don't have to wait for a man to fall in love with me to make me happy.
Jennae Noelle
