Refuse Love Quotes

#1. No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Honore De Balzac

#2. We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

Thomas Merton

#3. Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

Albert Camus

#4. Her eyes are closed when I reach the couch again. She looks so peaceful just lying there. I watch her for a moment, wishing I knew what the hell was going through her head, but I refuse to ask. I can carve pumpkins just as well as she can.

Colleen Hoover

#5. I will die the way I learned to live. Fully aware. At peace. With a heart so full of love that even as it slows, it is still full.
Because I know something the Scientists refuse to acknowledge.
Death is only the beginning.

Krista McGee

#6. Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.

Suzanne Collins

#7. I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

Gene Simmons

#8. If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

John Macmurray

#9. To love those who hate us is to refuse to borrow their hatred.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

Margaret Weis

#11. I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!

Mignon' Talise Padilla

#12. It's not the good we see in the people we love, but what we refuse to see that gives us strength."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"Sometimes when we care about someone, we deny what's right in front of us so we can move forward, so we have a reason to continue to love.

V.R. Barkowski

#13. A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.

Karen Karbo

#14. Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.

Gaelen Foley

#15. Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

David Deida

#16. And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.

Nadege Richards

#17. In the shadow my father has cast over my entire life, you are the only light I can see anymore. And, whatever the cost, I refuse to let that light be extinguished

Morgan Rhodes

#18. She could refuse to have sex with me every day for the rest of our lives and I still would choose her. That's how deep I was in this. - Caleb Drake

Tarryn Fisher

#19. What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.

Harry Stack Sullivan

#20. My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I'm praying that I shouldn't be praying.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. To be just, is not enough to refrain from injustice. Once must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self interest as the driving force of society.

Pedro Arrupe

#22. Because I love you." I refuse to allow fear into my voice. "Because I love you, nobody else will ever touch me. Even though you are constantly touched.

Mary Elizabeth

#23. You are so in love with your own profligate freedom that you refuse to even be grateful to another person lest you be weighed down by the smallest shred of guilt or obligation.

Tiffany Reisz

#24. For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality

Sanal Edamaruku

#25. But, Dad ... " She hesitated. "It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that."
Sol managed a smile. "No parent would refuse that, Rachel.

Dan Simmons

#26. Refuse to worry. Cast your anxiety upon the Lord. He cares for you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Love is many and truth is just,
And so we are; Both
What we choose,
And we refuse.

Edith L. Tiempo

#28. A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits.. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.

Baruch Spinoza

#29. I want to
peel away all the labels
I had once given to others
and place them
upon the fabric
of my own identity.

They have reflected back to me,
everything that I refuse
to See in myself.

Meraaqi

#30. Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

#31. The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.

Aleister Crowley

#32. Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

Diana Trilling

#33. There are songs I used to love that now I absolutely refuse to listen to, they trigger memories and feelings i don't want to experience again.

Colleen Hoover

#34. There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to
praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'

A.C. Dixon

#35. You cannot force a person to respect you like you cannot buy love but you can refuse anyone who doesn't do these things freely a pass into your life.

Keysha Jade

#36. My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

Therese Of Lisieux

#37. When your heart starts to feel full again. I love FREE refills, and if a restaurant tries to double charge me, I refuse to write a love poem on their Yelp page.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#38. The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#39. I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

Nicole Kidman

#40. He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?

Rabia Basri

#41. Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#42. Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!

Diana Wynne Jones

#43. Success is contagious when you surround yourself with people who refuse to let you down.

Kevin Laymon

#44. If there is any truth in Scripture at all, this is true - that those who stubbornly refuse to submit to the gospel, and to love and obey Jesus Christ, incur at the Last Advent an infinite and irreparable loss. They will pass into a night on which no morning dawns.

David Platt

#45. Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

Freya North

#46. His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.

Emil Cioran

#47. Ah, well,' the Wizard said. 'I gather from all this-I shall make a note-that sometimes one must sacrifice for love.'
Mirabelle looked intently at the Wizard. 'On the other hand,' the cat said at last, 'sometimes one must refuse to sacrifice.

Jeanne Desy

#48. A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

Michel De Montaigne

#49. Lean toward love at all times, cut people slack, forgive and forget, and be kind, very kind; the more you do that, the less fear you will have. People will raise up to support you. Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.

Stuart Wilde

#50. Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Georges Bizet

#51. We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.

Grant Morrison

#52. Love and Time with reverence use,
Treat them like a parting friend:
Nor the golden gifts refuse
Which in youth sincere they send:
For each year their price is more,
And they less simple than before.

John Dryden

#53. I was obsessed with my dad, and my dad would refuse to go to church with us on Sundays because football was on. So I thought to myself, how could I spend more time with my dad? I started watching football with him every Sunday, and it was just something I fell in love with.

Charissa Thompson

#54. Many things will hurt you and me for we are very much alike. But will these things hurt us less if we refuse to accept them? Can we ease our hurts by refusing comfort from those who love us?

Ann Nolan Clark

#55. He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

Seneca The Younger

#56. All the love, all the dead, all the people we've known. They are the rivers that feed our sea of souls. If we refuse to remember them, that sea will dry up too.

Nina George

#57. Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other ...

Jacques Leclercq

#58. Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#59. Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

Gloria Steinem

#60. Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan.

Les Carlyon

#61. Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.

Stephanie Laurens

#62. True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one

P.C. Cast

#63. I didn't know who I was or who I wanted to be until you stumbled into my life. I refuse to let you go.

Alex Rosa

#64. If the cross is a personal act of violence perpetrated by God towards humankind but borne by his Son, then it makes a mockery of Jesus' own teaching to love your enemies and to refuse to repay evil with evil.

Steve Chalke

#65. I love the underdog stories. I love people who refuse to give up.

Phil Keoghan

#66. Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

Adyashanti

#67. What I really love is touring on a bus with my band playing shows every night and feeling the audience, feeling the presence of people actually listening to my music. Feeding my soul is what touring feels like for me and I absolutely refuse to have a bad time doing something I really, really love.

Christina Perri

#68. You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

Shannon Hale

#69. Makers?" said Toby. Jaysir nodded.

"We're not loners, you know. There just weren't any on Wallop. We love to get together, we just refuse to engage in social relations that are based on material inequity.

Karl Schroeder

#70. Sometimes my need to love hurts
myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain ... To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.

Jon Krakauer

#71. I refuse to wait until my demise to be quoted!!!"

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#72. Unlike my dead lover, I refuse to/ choose the day I shock the world. There's no/ mystery left in suicide. The challenge is, my love,/ to keep yourself awake/ despite the sleeping pill doses of sickness and/ despair.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#73. Hatred happens when we refuse to see someone for their entire selves; we fear that if we see more than the qualities we hate, we will become them or worse, allow them to enter our hearts.

Katherine Russell

#74. This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#75. What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.

Theophile Gautier

#76. I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.

Christian Boltanski

#77. I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!'
'And I've tried living without you, and it just won't do!

J.L. Sheppard

#78. I love you Willow, but I can live without you. I just refuse to.

Emily Snow

#79. To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

Andre Gide

#80. Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

Shailer Mathews

#81. Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.

Dick Francis

#82. Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn't necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.

Meg Wolitzer

#83. In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#84. I turn away, tempted to punch the glass. I'm in the gratest danger of my life, and I'm playing with my hair and wondering if the boy I can't have-and refuse to let myself want-thinks I'm pretty.

Shannon Messenger

#85. I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act.

Roxy Writer

#86. Okay, you're older. Not much, really. And considering you love staying in shape and I refuse to run, we'll probably get all old and crippled at the same time. If not, then I'll learn to use a cane, and I'll get to beat on your ass for a change.

Cherise Sinclair

#87. The Cross is the ultimate evidence that there is no length the love of God will refuse to go in effecting reconciliation.

R. Kent Hughes

#88. Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.

Elisabeth Elliot

#89. Must I say it, ser? You call me love, yet you refuse me, when I have most desperate need of you. Is it so wrong of me to want a knight to keep me safe? - Arianne

George R R Martin

#90. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion.

Gregory David Roberts

#91. Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.

Kimberly Kinrade

#92. I think I never thanked you for helping me.'

'You don't have to thank me.'

'Can I give you a kiss as gratitude?'

'How could I refuse?

Debra Strattford

#93. Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.

Wayne Dyer

#94. It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do.

Mary Balogh

#95. If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

Charles R. Swindoll

#96. Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to love our enemies.

Mairead Corrigan

#97. Look here, cousin," Big Country's drawled in the background. "This here's a car. We just got off a plane, and no matter how fast you push this bitch, she ain't gon' fly, so believe me when I say, I refuse to die over some foolishness you call love, not today.

Shay Rucker

#98. Lived to see you throwing
Me aside. That fought
like netted fish inside me. Saw you throbbing
In my syrups. Saw you sleep. And lived to see
That all flushed down
The refuse. Done?
It lives in me.
You live in me. Malignant.
Love, you ever want me, don't.

Louise Gluck

#99. I love the way you refuse my love.

Toba Beta

#100. You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.

Israelmore Ayivor