Motivational Quotes

Love

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Love

1.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

2.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

3.

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

4.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

5.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

6.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

7.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

8.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

9.

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

Groening, Matt

10.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

11.

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

12.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Federman, Irwin

15.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

16.

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

17.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

18.

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

Buddha

19.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

21.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

22.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

23.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

24.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

25.

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

Bible

26.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Strindberg, J. August

29.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

31.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

32.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

34.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

36.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

37.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

38.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

40.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

41.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

42.

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

43.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

45.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

47.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.