Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Saltus, Edgar

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

10.

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

11.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

12.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

13.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

15.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

16.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

Jeph Jacques

19.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

20.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

23.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

26.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

27.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

28.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

29.

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

30.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

31.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

32.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

33.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

34.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

35.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

36.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

37.

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

38.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

39.

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

40.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

41.

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.

42.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

43.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

46.

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

47.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

48.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

49.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

50.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil