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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.

Funny Love Quotes

Funny Love Quotes Image It's been so long since I made love I can't remember who gets tied up.
- Joan Rivers

Inspirational Love Quotes and Sayings

Enjoy these Inspirational Love Quotes and Sayings

    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

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    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

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    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

Love Ended PoemsLove, 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

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    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
    - Song Title and Bumper Sticker

    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
    - Song Title

    How Can You Believe Me When I Say I Love You, When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life?
    - Song Title

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