Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

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

Behn, Aphra

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

11.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

12.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

13.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

14.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

15.

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

Paolo Giordano

16.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

19.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

20.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

21.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

22.

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

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

24.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

25.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

28.

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

29.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

30.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

33.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

34.

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

Duras, Marguerite

35.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

37.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

39.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

40.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

41.

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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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

43.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

44.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

45.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

46.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

48.

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

Randy K. Milholland

49.

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

Proverb, Spanish

50.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van