Is it possible to avoid love all one's life?

Question

Is it possible to avoid love all one's life?

Answer 1

I think you can avoid being happy in love, if you don't want to be in love and in a relationship. Perhaps you're scared of the unknown because you've never been in love. If you keep avoiding it, you might miss out on a good thing or person.

"True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing".                                  by Leanna L. Bartram  

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real".                                    by Iris Murdoch  

'Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence".      

                                           by George Santayana    

Answer 2

no. even if no one loved you, one day you would find yourself in love with someone. maybe you would admire that person secretly, maybe you would be too shy or afraid to approach that person, maybe you are not the loving kind, maybe you are afflicted with some disease so that no one will love you, but you cannot escape cupid's arrow. you would dream about that person and would love him/her with all your heart secretly. you cannot avoid love at all.

Answer 3

If you chose to live as a hermit in the Siberian wilds, then yes. Even then the bears might love you... but in more of a "I would love to eat that guy" kinda way.

Answer 4

Depends...what kind of love? Physical? Emotional? Self? Selfless? What's your definition of love? Do you revere someone, or something? Do you idolize? Do you feel in awe of? Do you fondly remember? Are you addicted to? Do you go out of your way for? These are all facets of love...

Practically, no, one cannot avoid love. There is always something that one feels strongly about...and that feeling, the one you can't pin a definition on, the irrational, inexplicable, overwhelming feeling of attraction/comfort/belonging is love of a sort.  

Answer 5

  maybe, but I dont see it happening too often.

Answer 6

First of all, the hardest question to answer: What is "love"?

You can resist the temptations of lust and sexual activity based on it- erotic love.

Your life isn't worth a fig if you don't give or get platonic love.

Answer 7

To quote Auden: "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."  (from his poem "First Things First")

Answer 8

Depends on what you mean by love?

Intimate love with another person, or sexual love, could be avoided.  But how do you avoid the love of a very compassionate person that's projected at everyone?  

Love is the creative, life-giving force which we're all a part of.  It may be hard to avoid this all one's life.  

Answer 9

Doubt it.  But to find true love may be somewhat impossible.  I no longer believe there is someone for everyone.

Answer 10

yep!

The cold-hearted wud be able to...

Answer 11

Yes.  You have to avoid human

contact.

Answer 12

no i don't think so. love knocks on every ones door. every one needs it and cant live without it. now the question is will you find the right one, that truly loves you forever...that's the hard part.

Answer 13

love    brought u into this world..

no  it is not!!

Answer 14

Very possible. Although eventually it will prove to be lonely existence. It is the best way of avoiding emotional hurt and its easier to deal with the death of someone close to you when you emit love from your life, but without sounding cold-hearted, it may also be a blessing in disguise.....At least you don't have to go through these heartaches when you don't feel love.

Answer 15

Yes, some people just arn't te loving type. Go to a law firm and you will find many of those sorts of people.

Answer 16

Try to convince a child not to love Ice Cream.

Answer 17

Maybe if you never leave your house!

Answer 18

Chances are you were conceived in a moment of love. So how do you escape that? I think love is such an all-permeating feeling, that we don't even notice it - like the air we breath. While its opposite (hatred) is so unnatural to human behaviour, that society had to frame special laws to deal with its many manifestations - crime, vice, murder, terrorism, war...  

Answer 19

It is probably more than possible to reject it, but i think we all need Love in our life...

Answer 20

if you die at a VERY young age b4 you know what love is..