Lack Of Love Quotes

• It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

  Glenway Wescott

  Love, Blind, Love You

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• Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Sin, Sufi, Virtue

  "Bowl of Saki".

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• A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives.

  Leon Brown

  Pain, Inspiration, Love Is

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• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.

  Mother Teresa

  Women, Cancer, Evil

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Motivational, Friendship

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• How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Sigmund Freud (1960). “Letters”

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• The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Truth, Isolation

  Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (2017). “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing”, p.220, Hachette UK

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• We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Death, Novelists

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

  Marianne Williamson

  Block, Eye, Love Is

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• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
  Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
  Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
  And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
  Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
  Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
  Yet many a man is making friends with death
  Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Rain, Love Is

  "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

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• The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

  Lorrie Moore

  Farce, Way, Affectionate

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Who Will Run the Frog Hospital”, p.4, Vintage

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• Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

  Margaret Atwood

  Love, Sex, Dies

  The Handmaid's Tale ch. 18 (1986)

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• Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment.

  Gary Chapman

  Children, Disappointment, Parent

  Gary D. Chapman (2017). “The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Love Is, Joy

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• Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.

  Keith Ablow

  Mother, Children, Father

  Keith Ablow (2015). “Compulsion”, p.299, Pan Macmillan

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• In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack of love and compassion. Of these two, the second type needs to be considered first because if we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Heart, Compassion, Two

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• It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

  Dalai Lama

  Friendship, Heart, Compassion

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• All ignorance is the lack of love.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Ignorance

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lost Love, Love Is, Failing

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• We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Excess, Reason

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• Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

  Pope Francis

  People, Suffering, Today

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• There is no sin but the lack of love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sin

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• I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Pain, Grief, Sadness

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• Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

  Rob Reiner

  Gun, Loving Life, Attachment

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• If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Encounters, Today, Action

  Twitter post from Sep 29, 2016

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