Absence of Love

Love never dies a natural death.
It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.
It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.
It dies of illness and wounds;
it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
-Anais Nin

To live without loving is not really to live.
-Moliere

Any time that is not spent in love is wasted.
-Torquato Tasso

Either I am choosing a thought containing love
or devoid of it.
-Hugh Prather

All beside love is but words.
-Abbas Effendi

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
-Robert Browning

For a crowd is not company;
and faces are but a gallery of pictures;
and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.
-Francis Bacon

Intent on one great love, perfect,
Requited and for ever,
I missed love's everywhere
Small presence, thousand-guised.
-Kathleen Raine

Love is not love 
Which alters when it alteration finds
-William Shakespeare

If you do not learn how to love everywhere you go,
you are going to suffer.
-Eknath Easwaran

If you are in love,
then why are you asleep?
-Kabir