Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

- Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Best Quotes about Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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

Disney, Walt

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

W. Somerset Maugham

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

10.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

11.

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

Proverb

12.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

13.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

14.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

15.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

16.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

17.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

18.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

20.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

21.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

22.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

23.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

24.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

25.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

28.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

29.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

30.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

31.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

32.

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

Sarton, May

33.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

34.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

35.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

36.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

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

Hay, Louise L.

38.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

41.

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

42.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

43.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

45.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

46.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

47.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

48.

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

Jeanne Moreau

49.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

50.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.