Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bible

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

11.

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

12.

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

13.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

14.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

15.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

16.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

17.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

19.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

20.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

21.

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

22.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

23.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

25.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

26.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

27.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Jeanne Moreau

29.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

32.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

33.

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

34.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

35.

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

36.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

38.

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

39.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

40.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

44.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

45.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

46.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

48.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

49.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

50.

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

Chanel, Coco