„I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.“
Keanu Reeves37
Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964Related quotes
„One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving“
— Amy Carmichael Missionary in India 1867 - 1951
A Chance to Die.The life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael, Elisabeth Elliot, Revell, 1987.
„To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought…?“
— Roland Barthes French philosopher, critic and literary theorist 1915 - 1980
„I will not live without love.“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
„We may often give without love, but we can never love without giving.“
— Chinmayananda Saraswati Indian spiritual teacher 1916 - 1993
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
„Aim at being loved without being admired.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian-British philosopher 1889 - 1951
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 38e
„We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man can not live without cooks.
He may live without books,—what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope—what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love,—what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?“
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton English statesman and poet 1831 - 1891
Part i, canto ii.
Lucile (1860)
„It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.“
— Maimónides, book The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.24
„I am young, yes, but what I have learned is that love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.“
— Ellen Page Canadian actress 1987
Coming Out Speech (2014)
„Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986
'Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Bulletin 3 (1969), and Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Bulletin 4, (1969)
1960s
Context: Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married — that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no conflict at all. (When I say we get married I might just as well say we decide to live together — don't let's get caught up in words.) Can't one have that without the other, without the tail as it were, necessarily following? Can't two people be in love and both be so intelligent and so sensitive that there is freedom and absence of a centre that makes for conflict? Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love. The loss of energy is in the tail, in everything that follows — jealousy, possessiveness, suspicion, doubt, the fear of losing that love, the constant demand for reassurance and security. Surely it must be possible to function in a sexual relationship with someone you love without the nightmare which usually follows. Of course it is.
„A strange people, for whom it is out of the question that anyone can be moral without reading the Bible, and strong without playing cricket, and a gentleman without being English! And it is this that makes them so detested. They never fuse, they never lose their Englishness.“
— José Maria Eça de Queiroz, book Cartas de Inglaterra
Estranha gente, para quem é fora de dúvida que ninguém pode ser moral sem ler a Bíblia, ser forte sem jogar o críquete e ser gentleman sem ser inglês! E é isto que os torna detestados. Nunca se fundem, nunca se desinglesam.
"Os Ingleses no Egipto"; "The English in Egypt" pp. 159-60.
Cartas de Inglaterra (1879–82)
„Translation: You can´t live without loving.“
— Malcolm Lowry, book Under the Volcano
No se puede vivir sin amar.
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. I (p. 6)
„But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes no, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. In the midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer, a stranger.“
— Elie Wiesel, book Night
Night (1960)
„I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.“
— John Steinbeck, book East of Eden
Variant: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Source: East of Eden
„But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.“
— Tiffanie DeBartolo American writer 1970
Source: God-Shaped Hole
„Tamaki: Having the courage to be able to admit what you love… enjoying what you love… and being true to yourself… Isn't that also what it means to be strong?“
— Bisco Hatori Japanese manga artist 1975
Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 7