Motivational Quotes

Love

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Best Quotes about Love

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

10.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

11.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

12.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

13.

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

Rowland, Helen

14.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

15.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

16.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

17.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

18.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

19.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

20.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

21.

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

22.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

24.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

27.

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

28.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

29.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

30.

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

Elizabeth Aston

31.

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

32.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

33.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

34.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

35.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

36.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

37.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

38.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

39.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

40.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Peguy, Charles

42.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

43.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

44.

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

Barry, Lynda

45.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

46.

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

47.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David