Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

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

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.

Camus, Albert

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

10.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

12.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

13.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

14.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

18.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

20.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

21.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

Duffy, Maureen

24.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

25.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

26.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

27.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

28.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

33.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

34.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

35.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

37.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

38.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

39.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

40.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

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

Jane Austen

42.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

43.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

44.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

46.

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

47.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

49.

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

Bible

50.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.