Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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

Erica Jong

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Desai, Yogi

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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.

10.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

11.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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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

30.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

31.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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 we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

37.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John