Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

- Law, William

Best Quotes about Love

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

10.

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

11.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

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

13.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

14.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

15.

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

Meredith, George

16.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

17.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

18.

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

19.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

20.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

21.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

22.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

23.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

27.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

28.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

29.

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

Jean Anouilh

30.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

33.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

35.

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

Leunig, Michael

36.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

37.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Augustine, St.

39.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

40.

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

David Viscott

41.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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

46.

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

Verse, A Haiku

47.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

48.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

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

50.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner