J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Hell is the suffering of being unable to love."
Inability To Love quotes
Inability To Love
7 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example."
James A. Baldwin
Writer
"I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"Hell is the inability to love."
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