Motivational Quotes

Love

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

10.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

11.

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

Jennifer Aniston

12.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

13.

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

Hay, Louise L.

14.

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

Erica Jong

15.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

16.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

17.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

19.

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

20.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

21.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

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

Du Coeur

24.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

25.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

26.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

27.

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

28.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Davies, Robertson

32.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

33.

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

Voltaire

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

37.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

38.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

41.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

42.

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

Bible

43.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

44.

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

Carmichael, Amy

45.

'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

46.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

47.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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