How sad, empty, and lonely to live a life without love based solely upon control and manipulation?

Without love, our lives are empty.

a life without love, is no life at all

life without love, is no life at all

But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.

Without love, we're dead.

[Y]ou have to live without love, learn not to need it, in order to live with it.

How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.

You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. — Dr. Seuss” — Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type

It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life.

If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love.

It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.