Motivational Quotes

Love

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

- Strindberg, J. August

Best Quotes about Love

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

Proverb

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

11.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

14.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

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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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

18.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

19.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

20.

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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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

22.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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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

24.

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

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

30.

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.

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Desai, Yogi

34.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

35.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

38.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

45.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.