Motivational Quotes

Love

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Davies, Robertson

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buber, Martin

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Harrigan, John

10.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

11.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

12.

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

13.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

14.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

16.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

18.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

26.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

27.

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

28.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

29.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

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

Kempis, Thomas

34.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

36.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

37.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

38.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

40.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

41.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

42.

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

43.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

45.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

46.

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

Reik, Theodor

47.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.