Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Love

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

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

10.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

12.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

13.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

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

Wilde, Kim

15.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Bible

17.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

18.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

19.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

20.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

22.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

23.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

26.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

27.

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.

28.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

29.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

30.

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

Peter Ustinov

31.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

32.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

33.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

35.

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

Pavese, Cesare

36.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

37.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

38.

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

Meredith, George

39.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

43.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

44.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

45.

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

46.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

47.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

49.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John