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

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

10.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

11.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

12.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

14.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

15.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

18.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

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

Harrigan, John

20.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

21.

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

22.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

23.

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

Groening, Matt

24.

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

Pythagoras

25.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

27.

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

28.

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

29.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

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

31.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

32.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

33.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

34.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

35.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

36.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

37.

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.

38.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

39.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

40.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

42.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

43.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

44.

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

45.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

46.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

47.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

49.

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

Paolo Giordano

50.

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