Motivational Quotes

Love

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Delp, Alexis

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

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

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

Pythagoras

13.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

14.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Crawford, Joan

18.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

19.

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

20.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

22.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

27.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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

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

William Shakespeare

30.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

31.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

32.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

34.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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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

40.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

41.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

43.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

44.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

45.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

47.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

48.

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

49.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

50.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare