Quotes on Without Love

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Beauty is not beauty without love.

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.

Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Nothing is possible without love.

Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.

A warrior never gives in to fear when he is searching for what he needs. Without love, he is nothing.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. That's why love gives such fullness, such deep contentment, such tremendously overflowing joy. Remain in love and let love be the door to the divine.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.