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.
Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.
Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.
In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning - because that ain't the time at all... When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.
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