Motivational Quotes

Love

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

10.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

11.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

12.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

13.

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

14.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

16.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

17.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

18.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

19.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

20.

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

21.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

27.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

29.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

30.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

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

32.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

33.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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

37.

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

Williams, William Carlos

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

Erica Jong

40.

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

41.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

42.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

46.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

47.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

48.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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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

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

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