Motivational Quotes

Love

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Harrigan, John

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

12.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

13.

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

Verse, A Haiku

14.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

15.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

16.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

17.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

19.

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

20.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

21.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

22.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

23.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

24.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

25.

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

Proust, Marcel

26.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

28.

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

Erica Jong

29.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

30.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

31.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

32.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

33.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

34.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

35.

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

36.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

37.

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

Parker, Dorothy

38.

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

Ice T

39.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

40.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

41.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

42.

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

Thurber, James

43.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

44.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

45.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

46.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

49.

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

50.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas