Motivational Quotes

Love

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Scherer, Paul

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

10.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

11.

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

Elizabeth Aston

12.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

13.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

14.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

16.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

17.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

18.

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

Hay, Louise L.

19.

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

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

23.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

24.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

26.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

27.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

28.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

29.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

30.

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

31.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Proverb, Jewish

33.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

34.

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

J. K. Rowling

35.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

36.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

37.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

39.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

41.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

42.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

43.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

44.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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.

46.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Ovid

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov