Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Love

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Brookner, Anita

10.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

12.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

13.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

16.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

Thurber, James

18.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

19.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

20.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

21.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

22.

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

23.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

24.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

25.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

26.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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 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

29.

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

Buddha

30.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

32.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

33.

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

Tracy, Brian

34.

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

35.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

36.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

37.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

38.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

39.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

40.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

43.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

45.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

46.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

47.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

48.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

49.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

50.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest