Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

10.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

12.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

13.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

14.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

18.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

19.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

21.

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

Blanton, Smiley

22.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

28.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

30.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

31.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

32.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

33.

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.

34.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

38.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

40.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

42.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

43.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

44.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

47.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

48.

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

Jean Anouilh

49.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.