Motivational Quotes

Love

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Disney, Walt

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Vicious, Sid

10.

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

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

13.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

14.

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

15.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

16.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

19.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

20.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

21.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

22.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

23.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

24.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

25.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

26.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

27.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

28.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

29.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

31.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

32.

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

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

36.

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

Hay, Louise L.

37.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

38.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

39.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

42.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

43.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

44.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

45.

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

Pythagoras

46.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

47.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

48.

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

49.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

50.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare