Motivational Quotes

Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

- Yates, Douglas

Best Quotes about Love

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

10.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

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

Law, William

12.

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

13.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

15.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

16.

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

17.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

18.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

20.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

21.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

22.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

23.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

24.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

25.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

26.

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

27.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

28.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

29.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

30.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

31.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

32.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

33.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

34.

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

35.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

36.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

37.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

38.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

40.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

41.

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

42.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

44.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

45.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

46.

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

47.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

48.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

50.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De