Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

10.

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

11.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

20.

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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

27.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

28.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

30.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

31.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

32.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

Barry, Lynda

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Jeanne Moreau

39.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

J. K. Rowling

43.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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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

45.

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

Fromm, Erich

46.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

47.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert