Motivational Quotes

Love

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

- Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Best Quotes about Love

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

10.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

11.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

12.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

13.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

14.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

15.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

16.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

18.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

20.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

21.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

27.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

28.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

30.

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

31.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

32.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

33.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

34.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

35.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

36.

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

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

Euripides

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

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

40.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

41.

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

42.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

43.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

44.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

45.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

47.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

48.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

49.

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

Layton, Irving

50.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.