Motivational Quotes

Love

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

- Gay, John

Best Quotes about Love

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

10.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

11.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

37.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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

Martineau, Harriet

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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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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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Euripides

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.