Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Bible

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

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

10.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

11.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

16.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

17.

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

Willis, Bruce

18.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

19.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

20.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

22.

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

Fromm, Erich

23.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

24.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

25.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

26.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

27.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

28.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

29.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Scherer, Paul

33.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

35.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

36.

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

37.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

38.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

39.

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

40.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

41.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

42.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

43.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

44.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

45.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

46.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott