Unloving Quotes

“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Don't hang out with people who are:
Ungrateful
Unhelpful
Unruly
Unkindly
Unloving
Unambitious
Unmotivated

or make you feel...
Uncomfortable”
― Germany Kent

“I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.”
― Gore Vidal

“I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.”
― Luffina Lourduraj

“We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.”
― Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“Too many Americans are spurred to achieve, rather than to attach.”
― Thomas Lewis, A General Theory of Love

“Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing...”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Do you still love me?”, he asked.

And after a long pause, trying to stop myself from bursting into tears, I answered, “I never stopped loving you. I chose to stop giving it.”
― Bella Coronel, a Constellation of Almosts

“Father, I thank you for your kindness and beg that you will let me leave your house."
As if the Gentle Lord cared about propriety.
Father held out an arm. "I will grant that with a glad heart and open hand, my daughter."
Certainly the glad part was true enough. He was avenging his dead wife, saving his favorite daughter, and keeping his sister-in-law as his concubine-- and the only price was the daughter he had never wanted.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Your rose, silent gift
thorn's reminder in my heart.
Loving, unloving.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined to us; the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs our spine at the mere thought of him or her. To be in love is to become an adept of Plato, to see through a person an Idea, perfect and complete.2 Endless novels, poems, or movies teach us the art of becoming Plato’s disciples, loving the perfection manifested by the beloved. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is far more silent on the no-less-mysterious moment when we avoid falling in love, where we fall out of love, when the one who kept us awake at night now leaves us indifferent, when we hurry away from those who excited us a few months or even a few hours ago. This silence is all the more puzzling as the number of relationships that dissolve soon after their beginning or at some point down along their emotional line is staggering.Perhaps our culture does not know how to represent or think about this because we live in and through stories and dramas, and “unloving” is not a plot with a clear structure. More often than not it does not start with an inaugural moment, a revelation. On the contrary, some relationships fade or evaporate before or soon after they properly started, while others end with slow and incomprehensible death.”
― Eva Illouz, El fin del amor: Una sociología de las relaciones negativas