Motivational Quotes

Love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Proverb

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

11.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

15.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

16.

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

17.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

19.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

20.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

21.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

22.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

23.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

24.

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

25.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

26.

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

27.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

29.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

30.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

31.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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

Harrigan, John

34.

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

Auerbach, Red

35.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

36.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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.

39.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

40.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

41.

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

42.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

43.

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

44.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

45.

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

46.

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

Murdoch, Iris

47.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

48.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

49.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.