Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

11.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

12.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

13.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

16.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

17.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Delp, Alexis

19.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

20.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

21.

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

22.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

23.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

24.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

26.

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

27.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

30.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

31.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

33.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

34.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

35.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

38.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

39.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

40.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

41.

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

42.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

43.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

44.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

45.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

46.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

48.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.