Motivational Quotes

Love

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

Law, William

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Richardson, Nick

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Murdoch, Iris

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Barry, Lynda

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Peguy, Charles

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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

Ferry, Brian

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

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

Allen, Woody

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

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