Lovelessness Quotes

“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”
― Maya Angelou

“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Small Bachelor

“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your great Bel, your fish-tailed Dagon, rises before me as a demon. You, and such as you, have raised him to a throne, put on him a crown, given him a sceptre. Behold how hideously he governs! See him busied at the work he likes best -- making marriages. He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. He stretches out the arm of Mezentius and fetters the dead to the living. In his realm there is hatred -- secret hatred: there is disgust -- unspoken disgust: there is treachery -- family treachery: there is vice -- deep, deadly, domestic vice. In his dominions, children grow unloving between parents who have never loved: infants are nursed on deception from their very birth: they are reared in an atmosphere corrupt with lies ... All that surrounds him hastens to decay: all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. Your god is a masked Death.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?”
― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies

“The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy.”
― Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

“As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“মাটিতে বসানো জালা, ঠান্ডা বুক ভরে আছে জলে
এখনও বুঝিনি ভালো কাকে ঠিক ভালোবাসা বলে।”
― Shankha Ghosh

“...the injustice and systemic oppression that we see in the world today stem from a deep, collective lovelessness and calls for an ethic of love.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“Those who go searching for love only find their own lovelessness. But the loveless never find love;
only the loving find love, and they never have to search for it.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“Suddenly, one day, out of nowhere, an enormous abyss opened up beneath our feet and I was staring into a face I didn't recognize.”
― Woody Allen, Interiors

“Among my friends love is a great sorrow.
It has become a daily burden, a feast,
a gluttony for fools, a heart's famine.
We visit one another asking, telling one another.
We do not burn hotly, we question the fire.
We do not fall forward with our alive
eager faces looking thru into the fire.
We stare back into our own faces.
We have become our own realities.
We seek to exhaust our lovelessness.”
― Robert Duncan

“Darling, I’ve realised I don’t love you.



If I loved anyone, it would be you. But I love no one. 



I’ve come to understand I don’t care about anything except for myself.

Any kindness I’ve ever shown has been in my own self-interest.

The very existence of other people seems doubtful.

I wanted more from life than this.

Let’s have a baby.”
― Eleanor Davis, How to Be Happy

“To comprehend the measure of one’s lovelessness, one need only contemplate the extent to which envy, spite, arrogance, anger, frustration, irritation, impatience, gossip, criticism, and scorekeeping characterize not only one’s behavior but also one’s thoughts, actions, and speech for where patience, equanimity, humility, forgiveness, graciousness, forbearance, optimism, hope, and endurance are absent, so, too, is love.”
― James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart

“How bitter is lovelessness both to suffer and to inflict. More than anything I have dreaded the despair of its remembrance and the threat of its repeat.”
― John Osborne, Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise

“I will always tell you how I feel, but I certainly can't force you to listen.... Still, I will give you leeway to call me cruel when you find that my love for you suddenly comes up missing.”
― Renee' A. Lee

“গ্রামবাসীর কাছ থেকে আদর না পাওয়া শিশুটা তার আকাঙ্ক্ষিত উষ্ণতা পেতে চেয়ে গোটা গ্রামকেই জ্বালিয়ে দিতে পারে। মানুষের সমাজ এভাবে সন্ত্রাসের সৃষ্টি করে। স্নেহ ও সম্মান না পাওয়া সন্ত্রস্ত মানুষেরা সুযোগে তাই সন্ত্রাসবাদী হয়ে যায়। চোখ গলে কান্নার বদলে আগুন বের হলে তারা তাদের অধিকারের প্রশ্নে রুখে দাঁড়ায়। এবং এ কারণেই ধনবান ও নির্ধন সকলের তরে বরাদ্দ রাখতে হয় ভালোবাসার। মহৌষধের মতন দরকার হয় মানবিকবোধ, সামাজিক সাম্য ও ন্যায়বিচার প্রতিষ্ঠার।”
― Charu Haque

“How long can we close our hearts to the despised and dispossessed? What are our slums, our penitentiaries, and our refugee camps if not a reflection of our own lovelessness?”

from the novel Hotel Noir”
― Casper Silk aka Germaine Shames