Motivational Quotes

Love

We were two and had but one heart between us.

- Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Best Quotes about Love

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

10.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

12.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

13.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

17.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

19.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

20.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

22.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

23.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

24.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

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

26.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

28.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

29.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

30.

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

Fox, Emmet

31.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

32.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

33.

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

34.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

Dryden, John

36.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

38.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

39.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

40.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

42.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

44.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

45.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

46.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

48.

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

49.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

50.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn