Motivational Quotes

Love

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

- Tsvetaeva, Marina

Best Quotes about Love

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Allen, Woody

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

Williams, William Carlos

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

10.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

12.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

16.

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

Laing, R. D.

17.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

19.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

20.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

23.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

24.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

25.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

27.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

29.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

30.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

31.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

32.

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

33.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

36.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

38.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

39.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

40.

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

41.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

42.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

43.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

45.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

46.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

47.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

48.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.