I'm posting this up here coz when this was posted in another forum (kpopper) it started a MASSIVE debate. Things were never quite the same for most of us even after the topic was closed because it got really chaotic and people were practically screaming at each other...

So, can you live without love?

For me, yes I can definitely live without love. If I lose someone I really love, heck life goes on. You might just freeze right there but time goes on. Nothing stops time. As long as you still breathe, then you are still alive. That is the meaning of being alive to me. Even if a part of you dies when someone you love dies or walks out of your life, you are still alive. You eat, you walk, you feel emotions.

I wonder if someone will say they can't live without love... Coz createBlog just seems to be filled with more rasional and maured people.

Well, there's love between man/woman; familial love; love for tangible things, like ice cream or chocolat; love for a pet; love for a higher being; love for a passion, like music or charity.

There's not just one type of love. I will say that I do not need the love between man and woman and I do not need love for tangible things. But the others loves, I think I cannot survive without them. I have a strong sense of family; I love my dogs to death (they are like bothers and sisters to me); I have many passions; and I do carry a love a higher being, even though I do not know how far that extends to.

So, I guess the 'with love' outweights the 'without love' for me.

If you believe that the purpose of life is to reproduce and carry on your genes for the survival of the species, then yea, you can live without love.

If life is more than that for you, then what is it that gives you the will for you to live?

If you believe in it, you'd have a passion for it, I think, and if you have a passion for it, you'd love to be able to achieve it.



Life itself? (can that be an answer?). Well, the things you experience in life will either give you a reason to live, or give you no reason. I think it's a matter of perspective. Depressed people would say that they have nothing to live for, while people who are passionate about life will have their own reasons for living.

If you leave any kind of animal by itself, it will eventually die sooner or later. In my opinion, I think humans work in a similar fashion.

Love is a many splendored thing
Love lifts us up where we belong
All you need is love
- Moulin Rouge

Nuff said

Love is the main goal in life, the purpose of life. Sure you can live without it, but you'll really be missing out.

Depending on and putting all your trust in someone is the greatest feeling. That's all life is about, finding someone to share it with.

But hey, if you wanna go "single player" mode through life that's alright too.

nuns dont get any lovin, yet they still live. harsh.

They don't get "lovin", but they still get love from one another and God.

Are you talking about one individual? Yes, individuals can live without love, but the question is: are they happy?

Of course, you can't have the whole planet living seperately without love, because then there will no longer be a race.

life goes on.

u could but i don't think anyone would want to. because when u were born ur parents love u to death. wouldn't u want in return is to love them? seriously i <3 my friends and family and all my things if it wasn't they i would die.

You can live without love, but who would want to?

Imagine living in a world where you dispise everything. You have no family, you have no friends.

You hate everything.

Would you want to live?

What Val said.
Sure you can live without it, but why would you want to?
My teacher told me about some babies in the USSR back then who were experimented on.
One half were secluded only to be properly nutritioned and taken cared of. The other half, was with nurses who would carry them and sway them and such.

The former didn't make it to two years of age.

- Chinkieeyedpnoi

Wow, the power of love...

I cannot... at all... and if I go without it... I'll start breaking down... and dig myself into a deeper depression...

If we didn't need such a powerful thing as love, why would we exist?

i love love and love is the only thing that makes us different from animals. it's a gift to be able to love and be loved in return, so don't act as if you can live without it. love is what life is all about.

Love is a want not a need. Right?

Hehe I second that! *Starts singing emo songs even though Jose doesn't want to hear it*

Um, animals can love.

edit:: in my opinion that is, but i can argue for it.

I don't think I could live without love because I would need some type of love to live by. I mean, as mentioned before, there are different types of love, not only a relationship type of love. I mean, love is fun and sometimes the only thing a person can live by. I mean, I would not want to not have love because it's always nice to have somebody or something (like a pet or something) to care for you. That's my opinion.

alright... animals can be familiar with things, but tell me about your experiences loving as an elephant in your previous life (do NOT mention Dumbo)

Huh? What does Dumbo have to do with anything? He's cartoon!

Edit:: or are you trying to say that I was an elephant? I'd consider that rude if I were nit-picky, but I'll let it slide.

An animal knows maternal love. Have you seen female animals care for their youngs?

I see it all the time on discovery channel: a rat races to carry her youngs out of the way of a hungry snake.

OR, if you want to speak of elephants:



Argue against that.

Edit:: and this:







If that's not love, then what is?

wow you really are being nitpicky about one example, i'm sorry, but my opinion is this: Love is a god given gift and no one can live sanely without it

I can live without it.. but i would rather not.. its the best thing in the world loving someone and being loved heh

you can. i do it everyday.

If you didn't love life, then you wouldn't live it. Love is why we are still alive because if you could live iwthout it you wouldn't be here anymore. The opposite of love is hate so if you didn't love then you would hate so why continue to live your life anyways.

I don't think anyone could live without a type of real love not love for tangiable things. We say we could but we haven't truely experienced life without love so we can't say that we could live without it.

I agree.. when many ppl read this topic, they think of love as in with the opposite sex, but there's also love for friends, family, tangible things like mentioned above, and love for oneself

Without love for life and for oneself, we truly cannot live.. thats why ppl commit suicide because they have lost their love of life and have nothing left to love or hold on to

Hmm... same I guess. But I hate conditional relationships.



Yes, it's the "greatest" feeling when it's returned. But I'm a single player.



Everything depends on definition. What is your definition of love?
There's sex, adoration, admiration, and liking.
I can live without sex. I can live without a husband (definitely so) and boyfriends. It would be very hard for me to live without the minor joys in life, though. Like wind. I love the feeling of the wind. I like rice. I'd hate never having a grain of rice to eat ever again. I wouldn't want to live without close plantonic friends, but I could, and still be happy, but not as happy as with them.

I don't know if I could.. I live with relatively little love.. but.. none?

... Life allows love to exist foremost, therefore, life itself is the reason to live.

But for the rest that's why I said it depends on perspective. For some, in life, they find love; for others, in love they find life.


Love and hate are passions. If a person loves to hate, he/she still has passion.

Not everyone wants/needs to be loved or cared about.
Even if you want or need that, you physically COULD live.

So, yes...technically you CAN live without love.

it depends on what kind of love. if it's the love you get from your family, you can't live without it. if it's the kind you get from somone else, you can, but never want to.

no i cannot. right now im single, but ive been so lonely lately...i really want a boyfriend. i cant imagine myself, as an adult, waking up every morning with nobody. I want a guy that i can share my life with..who understands me...and in my eyes, is the perfect man.

Sure, but then you'd have a very short, meaningless life.

nop , i dont think so.

I don't really think anyone truly lives without love. I mean, I love drawing. I love my friends. I love my kitties. Shoot, I love all kitties. I love dancing. i love singing. everyone has one little thing they are passionate about. Even if its just living. Some people just love to be alive. Its still a love. So in that sense, I'd have to say no.

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At the same time, if we mean love to or from another person, then its entirely possible. There are people who have had their entire family and friend turn their backs on them. So then you are without people love. Some would go searchin for it, some would feel they are better off alone. And they may be right. Also, there are those who may live without experiencing love at all. Who maybe were born out in the middle of nowhere and their parents died. Who knows. But they may be all alone and self sufficient and never really experience the love of another. So it depends.



And thats not really true. None of my family loves my mother. Before I was born she was turned away and cast out upon, because they are all a bunch of Over Christian hyporcritcal judmental people, and looked down upon my mom for having sex before marriage, and cuz she had a drug problem, and instead of like what a family should do, which is love and support poeple thru their hard times, my family prefers to turn its back and those they feel are beneath them. bUt she lived fine on her own (aka without family, not without friends) for years before I was born. now Lord knows, I love my mom, and she knows that, and her life is so much better now that I'm a part of it, but still, she survived, and it made her stronger.

You can breathe, you can move, you can eat and carry out your daily routine, but I don't consider that really living. Without love you have nothing to live for, whether it's love for a person, a pet, a hobby, a posession etc.

You need love to live, but not to exist.

i can't. i know that if i didn't know God's love, i'd be in a disastrous situation right now. i believe that because God loves me, i, in turn, can love other people around me =] and yeah, i definitely love doing things too such as vectoring, and i LOVE snow.

Loneliness is not being "unliving." Everyone at some point or another has lost someone close and feels that way. But life still goes on.
Plus, there's no such thing as the perfect man (or perfect somebody at all for that matter). Even if he seems perfect in your eyes, he'll probably have some flaws you could live without. But imperfect is okay.



Living without love doesn't shorten your life span...lol.
And if you're talking about love from another person, I think you can live without that. There are other sources of substantial love.



I agree with you.



I couldn't have said it better! You don't need love to exist, but to live you do! But still you do not need "people love" to live.

according to your defintion, yes, everyone can live without love. but if you are all alone in the world and NO ONE loves you, you will probably get depressed and kill yourself or block yourself away from the whole world.

Though I don't believe in the way of life that your mother chose, I believe her to be a wonderful human being. It is an incredible thing your mother has accomplished... though I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that.



If loneliness is not "unliving", then what is living? Is breathing, eating, taking showers truly living?

Can anyone truly know how to live, without ever knowing love?

If so, what is a good life and what is an easy life? Just good and easy breathing? Just good and easy existence?



Wanna bet? It has been proven otherwise.

I'll give you a heads up: read on behavioral psychology experiments.

It may not be the case with all human beings, but for the most of us, it is true.



I've already explained:



If your goal in life is to exist, you most likely have passion for it.

you cannot live with out love.. love is and always part of who we are. Love is like air it is all around us. If you have love, you would have trouble on describing the relationship between 2 loving people. Love stops people from deprestion. Even though sometimes it can cause drama, it can help in the end. Because love is endless through time and there is no stop to love.

physically - yes.
emotionally - not really, at least you wouldn't fully live. thats what i believe.

I truly cannot. I can't handle being alone. It just doesn't work. I wouldn't just automatically die without it, but I wouldn't be around very long. Emotionally I'd be dead right away.. physically I'd be dead in a few weeks.

Not knowing love is like not knowing how to breathe. Granted, you wouldn't die right away, but you wouldn't truely be alive. If no one loved you.. how could you go on? I'm not necessarily talking about JUST one kind of love when I say that. It could be anything. Love for a pet, a family member, a friend, a significant other.

I think that I wouldn't be able to live without love. Well, I know I could live, but put it this way: I'd definitely, definitely rather not.

no, love contributes to happiness, happiness sometimes bases on love, and happiness is the main point in life.

yeah, that's what I think too. I don't know, I need it. Like with family, friends, etc.

Yeah I can't live without Love too. Because when there's no one to love you, you felt like a loner and feeling like there's no one out there loving you and everyone is just going in their own independent sides... so yeah I would feel very lonely like I'm the only person who wants to get to know people.