It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
Interpretation
Love gives life meaning, and without it, existence feels empty.
This quote expresses the profound emptiness that accompanies a lack of love in one's life. It highlights how essential love is for fulfillment and purpose, emphasizing that life devoid of love can feel dreadful and void of joy.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of relationships, one might quote this to emphasize the need for love.
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion.
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
I give her sadness and the gift of pain,_x000D_ _x000D_ a new moon madness and a love of rain.
Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.
The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.
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