Bad Love Quotes

• Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Without Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1880). “Golden Gleams: From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Words and Works : Being a Choice Collection of Over 350 Extracts from the Latest Writings, Sermons, and Lectures of the Celebrated American Preacher and Author”

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• A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

  Anne Hathaway

  Heartbreak, Reason, No Reason

  "Anne Hathaway: 'That was a bad relationship!'" by Elaine Lipworth, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2010.

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• Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

  Timothy Keller

  Love Is, Our Love, Way

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• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

  Dorothy Parker

  Heartbreak, Love Is, Thinking

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Relationship, Love Is, Alive

  Song: The Eye of The Storm

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• We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

  Sylvia Plath

  Hate, Opposites, Hot

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.122, Anchor

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• I think the thing that I have learned is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience, but you have to be very honest at every single stage with the person about how you've been hurt, and hopefully they will be supportive about whatever it is that you have to go through. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

  Anne Hathaway

  Heartbreak, Hurt, Bad Relationship

  "Anne Hathaway: 'That was a bad relationship!'" by Elaine Lipworth, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 20, 2010.

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• I loved our music discussion. I live for discussions like that. It's my favorite thing because it means that people care about music, and actually have an opinion. I feel like it's dying. Everyone is just really like, they take a step back, but to actually have conviction about what's good and bad: love it.

  Fred Armisen

  Mean, People, Dying

  "Bill Hader and Fred Armisen on making comedy cinematic with Documentary Now!". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. August 4, 2016.

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• One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Men, Solitude

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• Political means so many things. We are political willy-nilly. Political poetry is an easy invitation to disaster. But then so is love poetry. But we are a little more patient with bad love poetry.

  Gerald Stern

  Mean, Political, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on to first-hand accounts. The highest rung on his stairway, though, went beyond those: “Empathy opens you up to absorb the good and the bad. Love impels you not just to observe but to seek union—to think as another thinks and feel as another feels.

  David Brooks

  Moving, Thinking, Hands

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• A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and respectful enough to conceal momentarily its aesthetic disdain, that dust may release a flock of souls, their beaks holding the still verdant dreams that gave them an inkling of the next world and let them rejoice or weep in this world.

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Song, Dust

  Marcel Proust, Joachim Neugroschel, Roger Shattuck (2003). “The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust”, p.127, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest transformation. We can only turn bad love into prose about bad love. So we are envious (and slightly distrustful) when poets talk to us of love.

  Julian Barnes

  Selfish, Good Love, Writing

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