Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

Willis, Bruce

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

12.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

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

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

17.

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

Donne, John

18.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

20.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

21.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

22.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

25.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

26.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

27.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

28.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

29.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

30.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

31.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

33.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

34.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

36.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

37.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

38.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

39.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

41.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

42.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

43.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

44.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

50.

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