Motivational Quotes

Love

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

2.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

4.

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

5.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

6.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

7.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

8.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

9.

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

10.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

11.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

12.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

14.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

16.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

17.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

19.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

22.

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

23.

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

Scott Westerfeld

24.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

25.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Chambless, David

28.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

29.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

30.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

31.

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

32.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

33.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

34.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

35.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

36.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

37.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

38.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

39.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

40.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

41.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

42.

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

43.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

44.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

45.

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

Blanton, Smiley

46.

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

Barry, Lynda

47.

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

48.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

49.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

50.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato