Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Love

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Proverb, Irish

10.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

11.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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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.

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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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

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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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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

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Duffy, Maureen

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Ovid

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya