Motivational Quotes

Love

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

- Jerome, Jerome K.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

Duras, Marguerite

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

10.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

11.

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

Jeph Jacques

12.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

13.

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

14.

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

Barry, Lynda

15.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

16.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

17.

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

18.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

19.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

24.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

25.

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

Bible

26.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

27.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

28.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

29.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

30.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

34.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

35.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

36.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

37.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

38.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

40.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

41.

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

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

44.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

45.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

47.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

'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

49.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Groening, Matt