Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

10.

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

11.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

13.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

14.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

15.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

16.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

18.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

19.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

24.

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

25.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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.

27.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

28.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

30.

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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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

32.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

33.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

34.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

36.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

37.

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

Rita Rudner

38.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

39.

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

40.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

44.

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

45.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

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

Proverb, Irish

48.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

49.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

50.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus