Motivational Quotes

Love

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Sophocles

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Leunig, Michael

10.

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

Murdoch, Iris

11.

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

Proverb

12.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

13.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

14.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

15.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

16.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

17.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

21.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

22.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

23.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Irving, Washington

26.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

28.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

30.

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

31.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

32.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

33.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

34.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

35.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

36.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

37.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

38.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

39.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

40.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

41.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

42.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

44.

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

45.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

46.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

47.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

48.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

49.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

50.

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

William Shakespeare