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

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

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

10.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

11.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

13.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

14.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

15.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

16.

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

Rita Rudner

17.

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

18.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

19.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

21.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

24.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

25.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

28.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

29.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

30.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

31.

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

32.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

34.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

35.

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

Paolo Giordano

36.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

37.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

38.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.