Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Chambless, David

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Duffy, Maureen

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

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Fromm, Erich

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

10.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

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

12.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

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

Anderson, Margaret

14.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

15.

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

Blanton, Smiley

16.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

17.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

18.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

19.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

21.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

25.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

26.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

27.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

28.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

29.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

31.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

32.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

33.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

36.

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

37.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

38.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Duras, Marguerite

41.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

42.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

43.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

44.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

45.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

46.

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

47.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

48.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

49.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

50.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare