Motivational Quotes

Love

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Donne, John

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

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

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

10.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

11.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

12.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

13.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

14.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Crawford, Joan

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

17.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

20.

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

21.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

22.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

23.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

24.

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

25.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

28.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

31.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

32.

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

33.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

35.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

37.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

38.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

39.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Irving, Washington

41.

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.

42.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.