Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

11.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

13.

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

Fromm, Erich

14.

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

15.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

16.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

17.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

18.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

19.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

20.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

21.

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

Ovid

22.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

23.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

24.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

25.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

26.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

27.

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

28.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

29.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

30.

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

31.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

32.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

33.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

35.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

36.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

41.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

42.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

43.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

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

Jeanne Moreau

45.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

46.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

48.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

49.

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

50.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John