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

1.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

2.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

3.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

4.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

5.

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

6.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

7.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

8.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

9.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

11.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

12.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

13.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

16.

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

Bible

17.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

18.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

19.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

21.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

22.

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

Murdoch, Iris

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

25.

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

Dryden, John

26.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

27.

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

28.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

29.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

31.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

33.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

34.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

35.

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

36.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

37.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

38.

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

Capote, Truman

39.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

40.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

41.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

43.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

45.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

46.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?