Motivational Quotes

Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

William Shakespeare

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

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

10.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

Southey, Robert

12.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

13.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

14.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

15.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

16.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

17.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

21.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

23.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

24.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

26.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

28.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

29.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

33.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

35.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

37.

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

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

39.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

42.

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

43.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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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

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

48.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

49.

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

50.

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

Vicious, Sid