Motivational Quotes

Love

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

- Barthes, Roland

Best Quotes about Love

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

10.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

11.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

12.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

13.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

14.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

19.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

21.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

25.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

36.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

42.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

44.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.