Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

Pascal, Blaise

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

11.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

13.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

14.

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

Jeanne Moreau

15.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

16.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

17.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

18.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

19.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

20.

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

21.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

22.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

23.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

24.

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

25.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

26.

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

27.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

28.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

29.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

Behn, Aphra

32.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb, Jewish

35.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

36.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

37.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

38.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

39.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

40.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

41.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

42.

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

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

48.

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

49.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

50.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold