Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

Confucius

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

Murdoch, Iris

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

13.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

14.

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

15.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

16.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

17.

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

Fox, Emmet

18.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

19.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

20.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

21.

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

22.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

24.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

26.

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

27.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

28.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

31.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

32.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

33.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

34.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

35.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

36.

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

37.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

38.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

39.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

41.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

42.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

43.

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

44.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

46.

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

Rita Rudner

47.

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