Motivational Quotes

Love

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

11.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

12.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

13.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

14.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

15.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

16.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

17.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

20.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

21.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

22.

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

23.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

24.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

25.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

26.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

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

29.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Murdoch, Iris

31.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

32.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

34.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

35.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

36.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

37.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

40.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

42.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

43.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

44.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

45.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

46.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

47.

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

48.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James