Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Toni Morrison

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

11.

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.

12.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

14.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

15.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

16.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

17.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

18.

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

Confucius

19.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

20.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

21.

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

22.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

23.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

24.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

25.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

26.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

28.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

29.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

32.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

33.

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

Carmichael, Amy

34.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

35.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

37.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

38.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

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

40.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

41.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

42.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

44.

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

45.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

46.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

48.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

49.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

50.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.