Motivational Quotes

Love

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

- Behn, Aphra

Best Quotes about Love

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

10.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

11.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

13.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

14.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

15.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

16.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

17.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

18.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

19.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

20.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

21.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

22.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

25.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

27.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

28.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

29.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

30.

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

31.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

32.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

33.

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

34.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Youngman, Henny

36.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

37.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

38.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

39.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

40.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

41.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

42.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

45.

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

Proverb, Jewish

46.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

47.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

48.

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