Motivational Quotes

Love

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

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 a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

Barry, Lynda

11.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

12.

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

Fromm, Erich

13.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

14.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

18.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

19.

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

Richardson, Nick

20.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

21.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

22.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

24.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

26.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

27.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

28.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

29.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

31.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

32.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

33.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

34.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

35.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

36.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Calvino, Italo

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

41.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

42.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

43.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

44.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

45.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

46.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

48.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.