Motivational Quotes

Love

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

- Bataille, Georges

Best Quotes about Love

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

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

11.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

14.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

15.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

16.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

17.

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

18.

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

Rita Rudner

19.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

20.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

21.

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

Meredith, George

22.

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.

23.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

27.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

29.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

30.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

31.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

37.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

38.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

42.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

43.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

44.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

47.

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

J. K. Rowling

48.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

49.

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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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.