Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Love

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

Irving, Washington

10.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

11.

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

Davies, Robertson

12.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

13.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

14.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

15.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

16.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

17.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

18.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

19.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

20.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

21.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

22.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

23.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

24.

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

25.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

26.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

27.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

28.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

30.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

33.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

34.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

35.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

36.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

37.

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

Rita Rudner

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

43.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

45.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

46.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

47.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

48.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

49.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

50.

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