Motivational Quotes

Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Anouilh, Jean

10.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

12.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

13.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

'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

17.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

18.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

19.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

20.

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

21.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

22.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

23.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

29.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Buber, Martin

31.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

33.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

34.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

35.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

36.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

37.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

40.

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

41.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

42.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

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

Meredith, George

44.

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