Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Love

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

10.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

11.

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?

O'Brien, Edna

12.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

13.

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

Randy K. Milholland

14.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

15.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

16.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

17.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

18.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

19.

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

Proverb, Irish

20.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

21.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

22.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

23.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

24.

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

25.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

32.

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

33.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

34.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

35.

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?

Guest, Judith

36.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

37.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

38.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

39.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

40.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

41.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

42.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

43.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

45.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

47.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

48.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

49.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

50.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara