Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Carl Jung

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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

10.

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

Croft, Roy

11.

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.

Baudrillard, Jean

12.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

13.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

15.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

16.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

17.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

18.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

19.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

20.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

22.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

23.

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

Duffy, Maureen

24.

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

Proust, Marcel

25.

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

Ferry, Brian

26.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

29.

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

30.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

32.

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

33.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

36.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

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

38.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

39.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

40.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

41.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

42.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

43.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

44.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

45.

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

46.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

47.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

48.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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