Motivational Quotes

Love

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Duras, Marguerite

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

11.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

12.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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

Scherer, Paul

14.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

15.

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

16.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

18.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

19.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

22.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

23.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

25.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

26.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

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

Proust, Marcel

28.

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

29.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

30.

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

31.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

32.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

34.

'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

35.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

36.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

37.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

38.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

39.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

40.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

41.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

42.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

43.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

45.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

47.

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

48.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

49.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

50.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard