Motivational Quotes

Love

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

William Shakespeare

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Charles M. Schulz

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

10.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Paolo Giordano

12.

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

Osgood, Samuel

13.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

14.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

15.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

16.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

17.

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

18.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

19.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

20.

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

Jane Austen

21.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

22.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

23.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

24.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

25.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

27.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

28.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

29.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

30.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

31.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

32.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

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

Croft, Roy

35.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

36.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

37.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

38.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

40.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

43.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

44.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

45.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

46.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

47.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

48.

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

49.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

50.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William