Motivational Quotes

Love

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Love

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Anouilh, Jean

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

11.

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

Vicious, Sid

12.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

13.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

15.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

18.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

19.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

21.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

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

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

26.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

28.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

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

32.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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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

34.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

37.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

39.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

40.

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

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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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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

Buddha

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov