Motivational Quotes

Love

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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

10.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

12.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

13.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

15.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

18.

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

Donne, John

19.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

20.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

21.

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

22.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

23.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

Mencken, H. L.

25.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

26.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

29.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

31.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

32.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

33.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

34.

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

Crawford, Joan

35.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

36.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

37.

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

Jeanne Moreau

38.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

39.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

41.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

42.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

43.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

44.

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

Capote, Truman

45.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

46.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

47.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

48.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

50.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La