Motivational Quotes

Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Plato

10.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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.

12.

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

Southey, Robert

13.

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

14.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

15.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

16.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

17.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

18.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

25.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

26.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

27.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

29.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

30.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

31.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

32.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

33.

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

34.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

35.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

38.

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

39.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

40.

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

41.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

42.

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

Buber, Martin

43.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

44.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

45.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

46.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

47.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

48.

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

Rowland, Helen

49.

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

Swift, Jonathan

50.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.