Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.
If he should love deny him what he loves!
Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
The trouble with this wide-open pornography ... is not that it corrupts but that it desensitizes; not that it unleashes the passions but that it cripples the emotions; not that it encourages a mature attitude but that it is a reversion to infantile obsessions; not that it removes the blinders but that it distorts the view. Progress is proclaimed but love is denied. What we have is not liberation but dehumanization.
I do love you. I mean, love has nothing to do with this.
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you when you offer it.
I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
As I got older, I learned about how some people treated their transgender children, and I was shocked. I couldn't understand how someone would leave their child and throw them on the street. I was always taught you give your kid unconditional love and if you don't, something's wrong with you, for real.
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.
Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.
