Motivational Quotes

Love

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

10.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

12.

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

Pythagoras

13.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

14.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

15.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

16.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

17.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

21.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

22.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

27.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Richardson, Nick

29.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

30.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

33.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

34.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

35.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

37.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

39.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

40.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

41.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

44.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

46.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

47.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

48.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

49.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William