Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

10.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

12.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

13.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Bible

15.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

16.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

20.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

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

Bible

22.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

23.

'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

24.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

25.

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

26.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

28.

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

29.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

30.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

31.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

32.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

33.

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

34.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

35.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

36.

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

Youngman, Henny

37.

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

Scott Westerfeld

38.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

39.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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

Chanel, Coco

41.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

42.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

45.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

46.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.