Motivational Quotes

Love

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

William Shakespeare

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

10.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

11.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

12.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

14.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

15.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

16.

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

Michael Patrick King

17.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

18.

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

19.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

20.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

21.

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

Hertl, Nick

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Elizabeth Aston

25.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

26.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

27.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

28.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

29.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

30.

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

31.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

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

Jeph Jacques

34.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

35.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

36.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

37.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

38.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

39.

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

Confucius

40.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

41.

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

42.

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

Fromm, Erich

43.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

44.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Lao-Tzu

48.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles