Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

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.

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

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

10.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

11.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

12.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

13.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

14.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

15.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

16.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

19.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

20.

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

Proverb, Jewish

21.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

22.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

23.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

24.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

25.

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

Thurber, James

26.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Erica Jong

28.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

29.

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

30.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

31.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

36.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

37.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

40.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

41.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

42.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

43.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

44.

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

Crawford, Joan

45.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

46.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

47.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

48.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

49.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon