Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Love

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

10.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

12.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

13.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

14.

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

Law, William

15.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

16.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

17.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

18.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

20.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

21.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

22.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

24.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

26.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

28.

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

Jeanne Moreau

29.

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

30.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

32.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

33.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

34.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

35.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

36.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

37.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

38.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

39.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

40.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

42.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

43.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

44.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

Scherer, Paul

46.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

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

48.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

49.

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

Davies, Robertson

50.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert