Motivational Quotes

Love

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Chanel, Coco

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Euripides

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Kent, Sister Corita

10.

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

11.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

15.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

16.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

17.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

18.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

19.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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.

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

22.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

23.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

24.

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

25.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

28.

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

John of the Cross, St.

29.

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

30.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

31.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

32.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

34.

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

Fox, Emmet

35.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

36.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

37.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

38.

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

39.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

40.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

41.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

42.

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

Vicious, Sid

43.

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

Sophocles

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

48.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

49.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

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