Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bette Davis

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

Proust, Marcel

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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.

10.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

11.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

12.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

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

14.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

15.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

16.

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

Paolo Giordano

17.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

18.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

21.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

24.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

25.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

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

29.

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

30.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

31.

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

Federman, Irwin

32.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

33.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

35.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

36.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

37.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

38.

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

Jeph Jacques

39.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

41.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

42.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

43.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

44.

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

Delp, Alexis

45.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

46.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

47.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

48.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

49.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

50.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas