Top 100 Quotes About Violent Love
#2. A wise man, once he is past fifty, does not befuddle his senses with strong drink, nor make violent love in the cool spring night, nor dance on his hands.
Frans G. Bengtsson
#3. I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world.
Lil B
#4. I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.
Charlie Sheen
#5. My mother's hands were sixty-four years old, weathered, beautiful. They were soft and hard and they held no duplicity of emotion. They didn't love and hate. They were not tender and violent. They never offered me the world and handed me hell. They were constant: I miss them purely.
Maggie MacKellar
#6. She drew in a shuddering breath. "I love you." And let it out. "God." The emotion that swept through him was like a summer storm, quick, violent, then clean. Swamped with it, he rested his brow on hers. "You didn't choke on it.
J.D. Robb
#8. Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.
Danielle Steel
#9. The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent.
S.R. Crawford
#10. It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#11. She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.
Francine Rivers
#12. I mean a racist, hate-filled host who is openly trying to get people to be violent would have zero viewers in the America I know and love.
Glenn Beck
#13. Losing confidence was more violent than losing love. Losing love was a slow dying, but losing confidence was a quick coup, a floor that opened right up and swallowed.
Lorrie Moore
#14. If all the days and nights in the world were to cease to be, I still hold that we were meant to meet and to love and to know the pain of violent disillusion.
Syrie James
#15. Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.
Lauren DeStefano
#16. Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
George Chapman
#17. The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.
Liu Xia
#18. He was overcome by a violent and fraternal love for this man from whom he had felt so distant, and he realized that by killing him he had consummated a union which bound them together forever.
Albert Camus
#19. There was never a moment ... when I forgot my hatred of you. It's almost like ... a violent hatred that resembles love.
Kaori Yuki
#20. I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.
Victoria Holt
#21. The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.
Sam Peckinpah
#22. Why him?He was as likely to offer me security and safety as a violent terrorist holding a gun to my head.So why I had chosen him?Because he had charmed me into a love affair,had truly convinced me he was madly in love with me.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#23. Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and destructive, when it causes suffering among their neighbors, you can be sure the religion has been corrupted and reform is desperately needed.
Charles Kimball
#24. People tell me I live in the past. We all live in the past, I tell them, we just don't know it yet." ("Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me," Wild Card Press, 1995)
Will Viharo
#25. It's love," thought Abel, "it's love that gives them this calmness, this peace. And suddenly he was gripped by a violent desire to love, to give himself, to find the red flower of love growing in his arid life.
Jose Saramago
#26. Love is like pancreatitis; it starts off slow, then builds in intensity until you become consumed and develop violent cramps.
Dana Gould
#27. Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
Fernando Pessoa
#28. I've rattled around long enough to have learned one thing: the universe is cold, and cruel, and violent - but only if you choose to look at it that way. For every act of aggression there are a thousand acts of kindness. For every hateful word, a million declarations of love.
James Roberts
#29. When their love was not reciprocated, it could quickly turn to violent hatred.
Stieg Larsson
#30. Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fiber of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.
Hannah Horvath's dying grandmother
Lena Dunham
#31. Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.
Jean De La Bruyere
#32. There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.
Salman Rushdie
#33. There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's
Jed Rubenfeld
#34. Showing up unannounced was risky. This guy was known for being cantankerous at best, violent at worst. But she was ready. As soon as the door opened, she let loose a stream of urine right on his doorstep . . . and then ran like hell. A few days more of that, she knew, and he' d be all hers.
Marah J. Hardt
#35. Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart.
Theophile Gautier
#36. We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.
Philip Berrigan
#37. This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
William Shakespeare
#38. Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.
David Deida
#39. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.
Claudia Rankine
#40. I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.
Eli Roth
#41. Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.
Joseph Addison
#42. Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.
William Sloane Coffin
#43. I'm not a pacifist, but I'm not a violent person. I mean, I have a gun. I shoot guns, but I wouldn't say I love guns. It doesn't work that way for me.
David Rasche
#44. The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#45. If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.
Dalai Lama
#46. When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.
Rajneesh
#47. If I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr. Darcy is so violent that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton, to attempt to place him in an amiable light.
-Chapter 7
Jane Austen
#48. in the words of George Bernard Shaw, marriage inspired by love brings two people together "under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions.
Sheena Iyengar
#49. Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.
H.C.Paye
#51. Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin
to love and be loved.
James A. Baldwin
#52. Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
Norm MacDonald
#53. To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
Noel Gallagher
#54. If I had a child, and I accidentally walked in on him seeing something, I'd rather he'd be seeing two people making love, than two people killing each other. USA in such a violent country, that I'd rather support sex!
Eva Mendes
#55. Oversimplified moral certainties - always requiring hostility, always potentially violent - isolate us from mercy, pity, peace, and love and leave us lonely and dangerous.
Wendell Berry
#56. A woman's love can be violent.
Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to.
Sometimes, they're even sorry afterwards.
Robert Jordan
#57. I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I'm simply mad and violent.
Courtney Love
#58. Wicked People Love Wickedly, Violent People Love Violently, Weak People Love Weakly, Stupid People Love Stupidly, But The Love Of A Free Man Is Never Safe ...
Toni Morrison
#59. The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Such force demands an equal response, and Jesus is going to make war on everything that hinders love, with his eyes blazing fire.
Lou Engle
#60. Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
Rajneesh
#61. True love is eternal, infinite and always like itself. It's always equal and pure. Without violent demonstrations: It is seen with white hairs and is always young at heart.
Honore De Balzac
#62. There is no greatness in dying for love, Raakha, she wanted to say. Those who die untimely, violent deaths don't become ashes. They become guilty scars on the flesh of the living. They become wounds that never heal no matter how much time passes.
Manjul Bajaj
#63. But the next morning, while night owls slept, I climbed trembling to her cubicle and woke her, weeping aloud with a crazed love that lasted until it was carried away without mercy by the violent wind of real life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#64. let my heart always be
like it is...this very moment
ready to explode...with love
a violent rainstorm...
with no stream
no ocean vast enough
to flow into.
Sanober Khan
#65. violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature.
Sanober Khan
#66. In my experience, love is a destructive force, tearing hearts to shreds and forcing people to pick up the pieces. Even the best love stories are violent tales.
Karina Halle
#67. Peaceful people infinitely deserve our love and our respect; violent people urgently deserve our strong determination to show and teach them the beauties of peace!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. I head someone say once that passionate people live violent lives. At the time I didn't really get it but if what they meant was the way love waits in ambush traps your well trained sense of control and tortures you into a confession you'd just as soon not make I now understand.
Jay Kopelman
#69. Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself.
E.J. Koh
#70. Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society.
Debasish Mridha
#71. Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.
Knut Hamsun
#72. We're all violent. Especially when it concerns the ones we love. They're intimately connected, love and hate.
Tess Gerritsen
#73. Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
Orson Scott Card
#74. Disintegrated.
Like something had gone wrong beaming her onto the Starship Enterprise.
If you've ever wondered what that feels like, it's a lot like melting but more violent
Rainbow Rowell
#75. I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.
Rob Zombie
#76. There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.
John Maus
#77. Pray, how violent was Mr. Bingley's love?" "I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At
Jane Austen
#78. Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid ... like love.
Octave Mirbeau
#79. We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in this way bring about the conflict for which we, too, like other men, are hungering in secret, and with suppressed barbarity.
Thomas Merton
#80. Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human when we love, forgive and work toward peace. To be violent, vengeful or selfish is to be un-human!
Daniel Horan
#81. The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
Aldous Huxley
#82. If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you know it we become violent and demanding and manipulative. It's so important that we keep forgiving one another - not once in a while, but every moment of life.
Henri Nouwen
#83. Love is dangerous and often violent in the sense that it can radically alter us at a moment's notice.
Roberto Montes
#84. The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
William Hazlitt
#85. Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#86. Sometimes ... Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what's right gets lost. Our heart bleeds, but when does the blood shed end and the healing begin?
Solange Nicole
#87. She had the theory of youth about love, that it was a violent thing, tempestuous and passionate. She thought that love demanded, not knowing that love gives first, and then asks.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#88. Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]
Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me.
Anne Lister
#89. If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.
Rick James
#90. What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
Cab Calloway
#91. Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.
John Lennon
#92. True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
Holliday Grainger
#93. I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
Eli Roth
#94. What do violent individuals fear most? Violence? I should say not! By what do the cruel and selfish feel most threatened? All of them fear nothing as much as they fear love.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#95. In their unity against disaster, they formed a more perfect coupling, for that was indeed where true love lived - not in the moments of great passion and bursting joy, but in the strength with which in weathered any storm, no matter how harsh or violent.
Donna Russo Morin
#96. A returned love letter is written in the most violent language, by your own hand.
Jardine Libaire
#97. Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?
Joseph Addison
#98. When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
George Etherege
#99. As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is what it is - you know, your father's violent but he loves you and that's just the way it is - later on you realize that this is like different, shameful, blah blah blah.
Justin Torres
#100. [William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome.
Sophia Loren
