Loveless Quotes

• Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faith, Heart, Two

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

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• A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

  Stephen King

  Love, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess I'm destined to be loveless

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Destined

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• Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

  Voltaire

  Heart, Paradise, Hell

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• Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Believe, Sleep

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• If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

  Stephen King

  Love, Heart, Beast

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Morning, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

  Jan Struther

  Pills, Bitter, Stills

  Jan Struther, “The Choice”

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• In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Everyday, Everyday Life, Substitutes

  Henri Lefebvre (2010). “Everyday Life in the Modern World: Second Revised Edition”, p.172, A&C Black

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• Kissing in front of the loveless is an act of cruelty.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Kissing, Cruelty, Fronts

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.348, Scholastic Inc.

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• Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Without Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1880). “Golden Gleams: From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Words and Works : Being a Choice Collection of Over 350 Extracts from the Latest Writings, Sermons, and Lectures of the Celebrated American Preacher and Author”

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• A loveless world is a dead world.

  Albert Camus

  World

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Misery, Boring, Humans

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Life, Breakup

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem

  James Hillman

  Focus, Secret Love, Going Away

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• Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.

  R. D. Laing

  Book, Perfect One, Race

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• There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Country, Reflection, Two

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.84, Westminster John Knox Press

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• A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Liars, Lying, Eye

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• If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, Desire, Failing

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• Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Knowing Love, Frozen

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• And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

  Oscar Wilde

  Winter, Garden, Wind

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.812, e-artnow

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• There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sides, Ideal Husband, One Thing

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1230, GENERAL PRESS

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• We are made loveless by our possessions.

  Elizabeth of Hungary

  Made, Possession

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• And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?

  Sherman Alexie

  Love, Wine, Blood

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• A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Mother, Pain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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