Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Carl Jung

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

10.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

15.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

17.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

20.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

23.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

24.

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

Jeanne Moreau

25.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

27.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

28.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

29.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

30.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

33.

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

34.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

35.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

36.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

37.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

38.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

39.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

40.

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

Groening, Matt

41.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

42.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

43.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

44.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

45.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

46.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

47.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

48.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

49.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

50.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine