Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

2.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

3.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

4.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

5.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

6.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

7.

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

Murdoch, Iris

8.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

9.

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

Proverb

10.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

12.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

13.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

14.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

15.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

16.

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

Hazlitt, William

17.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

18.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

20.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

21.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

22.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

23.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

24.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

25.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

27.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

28.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

29.

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

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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

Duffy, Maureen

31.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

33.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

34.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

36.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

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

Euripides

38.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

39.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

40.

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

Saltus, Edgar

41.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

David Viscott

45.

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