Motivational Quotes

Love

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

- Jeanne Moreau

Best Quotes about Love

1.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

2.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

3.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

4.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

5.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

6.

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

7.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

8.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

9.

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

10.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

11.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

12.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

14.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

16.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

19.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

20.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

23.

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

Auerbach, Red

24.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

25.

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

26.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

27.

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

28.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

30.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

31.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

33.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

34.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

35.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

36.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

38.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

40.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

41.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

42.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

43.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

44.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

45.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

46.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

49.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

50.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo