Motivational Quotes

Love

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

- Marino, Michael Garrett

Best Quotes about Love

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Guthrie, Arlo

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

10.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

11.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

12.

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

13.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

15.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

17.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

18.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

21.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

22.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

23.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

24.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

25.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

26.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

28.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

29.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

31.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

32.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

33.

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

Richardson, Nick

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

36.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

37.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

38.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

39.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

41.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

43.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

45.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

46.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

48.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

49.

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

50.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil