Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

2.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

3.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

4.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

5.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

6.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

7.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

8.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

9.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

10.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

11.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

12.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

13.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

16.

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

Pavese, Cesare

17.

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.

18.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

19.

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

Duras, Marguerite

20.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

21.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

22.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

23.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

26.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

27.

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

Bridges, Robert

28.

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

Peter Ustinov

29.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

30.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

31.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

35.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

36.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

37.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

38.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

39.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

40.

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

41.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

42.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

43.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

44.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

45.

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