Motivational Quotes

Love

The only victory over love is flight.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Love

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Sarton, May

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

Traherne, Thomas

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

10.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

11.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

12.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

13.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

14.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

15.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

16.

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

17.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

18.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

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

20.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

21.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

22.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

23.

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

Tracy, Brian

24.

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

25.

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

Chambless, David

26.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

28.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

29.

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

30.

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

Proust, Marcel

31.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

35.

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

Behn, Aphra

36.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

39.

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

Anouilh, Jean

40.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

41.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

42.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

43.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

46.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

47.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

48.

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

49.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

50.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna