Motivational Quotes

Love

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

Randy K. Milholland

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

11.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

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

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

John of the Cross, St.

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

Federman, Irwin

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

29.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

30.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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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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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Paolo Giordano

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

47.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.