Motivational Quotes

Love

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

- O'Brien, Edna

Best Quotes about Love

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

10.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

12.

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

13.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

14.

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

15.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

16.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

17.

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

18.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

19.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

21.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

25.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

26.

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

27.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

29.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

31.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

32.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

33.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

34.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

35.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

36.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

37.

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

38.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

39.

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

40.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

41.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

42.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

43.

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

Bible

44.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

45.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

47.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

48.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

49.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

50.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.