Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

10.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

11.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Jeph Jacques

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

20.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

21.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

22.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

23.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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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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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

35.

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

Proverb, Irish

36.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

37.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

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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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

41.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

45.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

William Shakespeare