Motivational Quotes

Love

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

12.

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.

13.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

14.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

15.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

17.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

18.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

19.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

20.

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

21.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

22.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

23.

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

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

26.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

27.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

28.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

29.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

30.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

31.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

32.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

33.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

34.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

36.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

38.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

40.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

41.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

42.

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

43.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

44.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

45.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

46.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

49.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

50.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan