Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Love

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

Mencken, H. L.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

10.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

11.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

12.

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

13.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

20.

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

21.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

22.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

23.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

25.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

28.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

29.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

30.

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

Dryden, John

31.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

32.

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

Croft, Roy

33.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

35.

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

Hertl, Nick

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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

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

38.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

39.

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.

40.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

41.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

42.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

43.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

44.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

45.

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

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

48.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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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

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.