Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

- Stael, Germaine De

Best Quotes about Love

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

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

14.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

15.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

16.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

19.

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

Mcdonald, George

20.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

21.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

22.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

23.

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

24.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

25.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

26.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

27.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

28.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

29.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

30.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

31.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

33.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

34.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Rowland, Helen

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

37.

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

38.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

39.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

40.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

41.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

43.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

44.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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