Toxic Love Quotes

“Just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you have to keep them around if they are toxic or abusive. Don’t let people guilt you.”
― Winnie Nantongo

“We know each other without knowing each other. I know your name, you know mine. We recognize each other in the corridors, and we know it.

There is something between us. A bond. A special bond. That no one knows. It's just you and me.

Keep ignoring me ! You amuse me. If you only knew how much I know about you, and how much I know everything.

You really think I love you ????

Well, you're right.

Get inside my head, you'll see, you're everywhere.
Even as I write this quote.

Fortunately, you'll never know any of this. I'm the one with all the keys in my hand. You have to beg me to give you one !”
― Anonymous

“Maybe I fell in love with a version of him that didn't exist.”
― Namrata Gupta, Lost Love Late Love

“I know every corner of you savage heart, your capacity for cruelty, your caprice, and yet I love you still. I would have you right here if you would let me. Fear you? I exalt you. Remember what I told you?" He laughed, tightening his grip on her hair. "You could burn me a thousand times, and I would still want you for my own.”
― Claire Legrand, Lightbringer

“the hardest part is forgiving people
who were never truly sorry”
― R.H. Sin, Algedonic

“this isn’t what i wanted
i thought i needed you
until i realized
that you never deserved me”
― R.H. Sin, Algedonic

“He made you dependent on him so that your happiness depended on his and his depended on whether or not you agreed to what he said.”
― Namrata Gupta, Lost Love Late Love

“Let death come to me," I told them.
Contempt filled their gaze; they labeled me crazy. Then they saw me drink my poison from her lips, and they envied my fate.”
― Wiss Auguste

“the most dangerous anger
is the one that lingers
in silence
it sits
it stays
it lives
in solitude
it wants to be alone
it dwells within me”
― R.H. Sin, Algedonic

“Cut the toxic ties that force you to mask
your true feelings. - Gowri Bhargav”
― Linda Greyman, Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection

“powerful women are tired of trying
for lovers who never try for them”
― R.H. Sin, Algedonic

“I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills.”
― Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

“most nights
he’s undeserving
of any space
in your mind”
― R.H. Sin, Algedonic

“a man who hides you
is a coward”
― R.H. Sin, Algedonic

“Tu sei come un torrente chiaro che scorre sulle rocce, io sono come il suo letto levigato, eroso dalla corrente. Solo se il torrente si asciuga il letto viene risparmiato ma, nonostante tutto, quest'ultimo non vuole inaridirsi e desidera ardentemente che le acque non cessino di scorrere e di consumarlo...”
― Yukio Mishima, La foresta in fiore

“Some of us love others badly, love ourselves worse. Some of us love horrid, love beastly, love sick, love anti light. Sometimes the love can’t go home at night, can’t sleep with itself,
cannot contain itself, catches fire, destroys the belly, strips buildings, goes missing. Punches. Smashes heirlooms. Tells lies. The best lies.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, Bone

“Some of us love badly. Sometimes the love is the type of love that implodes. Folds in on itself. Eats its insides. Turns wine to poison. Behaves poorly in restaurants. Drinks. Kisses other people. Comes back to your bed at four a.m. smelling like everything outside. Asks about your ex. Is jealous of your ex. Thinks everyone a rival.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, Bone

“Will my little cat starve in Paris?' he asked.
'I don't know,' said Père. 'I don't know who will take us in or where we shall go. Cats are never happy in strange places. You ought to have left her behind. She would have fed herself. Someone would take care of her.'
'No,' whispered Julius, 'no - never, never anyone but me. What is mine cannot belong to another person. Père, do you understand? Tell me you understand.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius

“For all the time she’s out of reach because I was a rigid dick who only ever saw the world in black or white. Cecily is neither. She’s gray. She’s the color. She’s every rainbow I never thought to stop and watch”
― Rina Kent, God of Wrath

“Tangled in my powder white bed sheets as you're longing for my ribs to be crushed under the weight of your black and only then, I'll know it's true.”
― Lea Malot, Coffins & Rhinestones

“You did that, Love. You sent me away, Love.’
‘And you left,’ she says. ‘Do you even care what it’s been like for me?”
― Caroline Kepnes, You Love Me

“Let death come for me," I told them.
Contempt filled their gaze; they labeled me crazy. They then saw me drink my poison from her lips and they envied my fate.”
― Wiss Auguste

“Let death come for me," I told them.
Contempt filled their gaze; they labeled me crazy. They then saw me drink my poison from her lips and they envied my fate.”
― Wiss Auguste

“why do i hurt the ones
who want to lift me up and
worship the ones who crush me
- what made me like this”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“When a person finds someone who makes all the negativity in their lives disappear, it's hard not to feed off that person.”
― Varity Crawford

“When you are in my arms—only then everything is right!”
― Kristin Kay, One: Angels Are Hard to Love

“I chose a selfish man to love, and I asked him not to be selfish. And even now I want him to help me, to think about me, to understand what being a woman is when he's always been and only ever been a man.”
― Eliza Jane Brazier, If I Disappear

“Don’t build castles on first impressions—those foundations might just be cardboard.”
― Angelika Seelaff, Why You Choose Assholes: A Survival Manual for Spotting and Escaping the Wrong Men

“Investing in yourself shouldn’t end with settling for someone who doesn’t appreciate who you are. Let’s face it: the way you dress and act can send out signals like a flashing neon sign to the wrong types.”
― Angelika Seelaff, Why You Choose Assholes: A Survival Manual for Spotting and Escaping the Wrong Men

“Why should I need to be with a man who hurts me?" -Ruth Ezrah”
― Oneal Walters, The Empty Couple: A Thriller