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

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

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

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

Mother Teresa

10.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

11.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

12.

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

13.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

14.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

15.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

16.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

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

20.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

21.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

23.

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

24.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Wilkerson, David

26.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

31.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

33.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

34.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

35.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

36.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

37.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

43.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

46.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

47.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

48.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

49.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

50.

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