Motivational Quotes

Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

10.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

13.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

14.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

15.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

16.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

17.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

18.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

19.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

20.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

21.

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

22.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

23.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

24.

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.

25.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

26.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

27.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

28.

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

Bourget, Paul

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.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

31.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

32.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

35.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

36.

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

Southey, Robert

37.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

38.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

39.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

40.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

41.

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

42.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

43.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

44.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

45.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

46.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

48.

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

Verse, A Haiku

49.

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

50.

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