Best Love Quotes and Poems
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This webpage of best love quotes and love sayings has it all: Paradox. Sarcasm. Wisdom. Nonsence. Ridicule. Irony. Comedy. Mockery. Social commentary. Valuable insight.
All told - you will encounter the best things anybody ever said about love in these inspirational love quotes and sayings.
All told - you will encounter the best things anybody ever said about love in these inspirational love quotes and sayings.
Inspirational Love Quotes and Sayings
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- Love means never having to say you're sorry.
- from the movie Love Story
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
- Rumi
What's true love? - It is the surrendering of one's own self.
- Shamas Tabrez
If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this Love each other as I have loved you.
- John 15:10-12
I don't want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.
- Zelda Fitzgerald
I shall always be a priest of love.
- D. H. Lawrence
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
- André Breton
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Love Quotes about Love Ended and Falling Out of Love
- Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
- Iris Murdoch
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
- J. August Strindberg, A Madman's Defense
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dégoût given by satiety.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, to her future husband
I leave before being left. I decide.
- Brigitte Bardot (b. 1933), French screen actor, Newsweek (New York, 5 March 1973).
In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
-Marcel Proust
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: "Is there someone new?"
- Edna O'Brien
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
- Stendhal De l'Amour, ch. 1 (1822).
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
- Marguerite Duras
She's gone. I am abused, and my relief
Must be to loathe her.
- William Shakespeare
The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
- Lord Byron
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
- Oscar Wilde
Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?
- Judith Guest
Were we positive, eager, real- alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.
- Katherine Mansfield
We who were loved will never
unlive that crippling fever.
- Adrienne Rich
When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
- Oscar Wilde
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Love Quotes - Importance of Love

- If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
- André Breton
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
- Laurence Marks,
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
- Nelson Rockefeller (to Henry Kissinger)
Love Poems about Love Ended
And I shall find some girl perhaps,
And a better one than you,
With eyes as wise, but kindlier,
And lips as soft, but true,
And I daresay she will do.
- Rupert Brooke, The Chilterns.
Infinite hungers leap no more
In the chance swaying of your dress;
And love has changed to kindliness.
- Rupert Brooke, Kindliness.
Love Quotes - Definition of Love
- LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
- Ambrose Bierce
Just another four-letter word
- Tennessee Williams
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is two minutes 52 seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn't clicking right.
- Johnny Rotten
When you're in love it's the most glorious two-and-a-half days of your life.
- Richard Lewis
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov
You know you're in love when you don't want your girlfriend hanging around the joint you picked her up in."
- from B.C. cartoon strip by Gart
I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
- Actor John Cusack in the movie Say Anything (1989, Screenwriter: Cameron Crowe)
Does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
- Eleonora Duse
Nobody loves me like my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
- B. B. King
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
- Albert Camus
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
- Erich Fromm
Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.
- Katharine Hepburn
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard- it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. . . . The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
- E. M. Forster
Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
- Iris Murdoch
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
- Helen Rowland
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Love and Money Quotes
Top-10 Things Ever Said about Love and Money

- Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
- Jackie Mason
Love and money are a difficult mix.
- Herb Goldberg and Robert T. Lewis
Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
- William Caxton
Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like . . . . love.
- Homer Simpson
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
- Gerald Brenan
A fool and her money are soon courted.
- Helen Rowland
I love money, but will money ever love me in return?
- Mason Cooley
You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.
- Jewish proverb
When poverty comes in at the door, love creeps out at the window.
- Thomas Fuller
For I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me love.
-The Beatles
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Love Quotes about the Perils of Love
- 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.
- Ann Oakley
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and
common sense continual.
- Robertson Davies
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
- Ernest Hemingway
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with
language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
- Jean Baudrillard
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says:
"I need you because I love you."
- Erich Fromm
Don't threaten me with love, baby.
- Billie Holiday
Love Quotes from "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" by Thaddeus Golas
Quotations about Love and Enlightenment
- Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
- Thaddeus, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
Whether I feel it or not, I am one with all the love in the universe.
- Thaddeus Golas
Go beyond reason to love: it is safe. It is the only safety.
- Thaddeus Golas
Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
- Thaddeus Golas
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it.
- Thaddeus Golas
What did you think it was that needed to be loved?
- Thaddeus Golas
When you learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.
- Thaddeus Golas
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Humorous Love Quotes
- Of course there is such a thing as love, or there wouldn't be so many divorces.
- Ed Howe
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
- Samuel Johnson, English author
If Love Were Oil, I'd Be A Quart Low
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I Fell In A Pile Of You And Got Love All Over Me
- Song Title
At the Gas Station of Love, I Got the Self Service Pump
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How Can You Believe Me When I Say I Love You, When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life?
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