Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Love

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

10.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

11.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

13.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

14.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

16.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

17.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

18.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

19.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

21.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

22.

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

23.

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

24.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

25.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

26.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

27.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

28.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

29.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

30.

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

31.

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

Proust, Marcel

32.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

33.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

34.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

41.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

42.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

45.

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

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

Davies, Robertson

47.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

48.

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

49.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

50.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke