Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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

10.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

11.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

12.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

13.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

18.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

19.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

20.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

23.

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

24.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

25.

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

Verse, A Haiku

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

31.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

32.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

33.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

34.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

37.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

38.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

39.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

40.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

41.

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

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

43.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

45.

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

Tracy, Brian

46.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

47.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

48.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

49.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare