Unable To Love Quotes

• Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Being In Love, Inability To Love

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• Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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  What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Suffering

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Tired, Simple, I Love Myself

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.434, Random House

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• The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Memories, Regret, Past

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.94, Knopf Group E-Books

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• Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.

  James Dean

  Heart, Long Ago, People

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• Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something - love - from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Asking, Demand

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Running, Mistake, Failure

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• Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs

  J. R. Ackerley

  Dog, Turns, Love Each Other

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