Motivational Quotes

Love

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

- Breton, Andre

Best Quotes about Love

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Brooke, Rupert

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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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.

Bernard, St.

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Richardson, Nick

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras