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

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rita Rudner

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

10.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

11.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

12.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

14.

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

Updike, John

15.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

16.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

17.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

19.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

20.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

22.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

23.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

24.

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

Wilde, Kim

25.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

26.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

27.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

28.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

29.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

30.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

33.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

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

35.

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

Murdoch, Iris

36.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

37.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

38.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

39.

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

40.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

42.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

44.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

45.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

46.

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

47.

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

Willis, Bruce

48.

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

49.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

50.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo