Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

Dane, Frank

10.

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

11.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

12.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

13.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

14.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

20.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

21.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

22.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

23.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

24.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

25.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

26.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

30.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

31.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

32.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

33.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

34.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

35.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

36.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

37.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

38.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

39.

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

40.

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

Updike, John

41.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

42.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

43.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

44.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

45.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

46.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

47.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

48.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

50.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish