Motivational Quotes

Love

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

- Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Best Quotes about Love

1.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

2.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

3.

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

4.

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

Verse, A Haiku

5.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

6.

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

7.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

8.

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

Carmichael, Amy

9.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

10.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

11.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

12.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

13.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

14.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

15.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

16.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

17.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

19.

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

20.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

22.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

23.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

25.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

26.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

27.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

28.

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

David Viscott

29.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

33.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

34.

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

Jeph Jacques

35.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

36.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

37.

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

38.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

39.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

40.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

43.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Fromm, Erich

45.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

46.

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

47.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

48.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

49.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

50.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon