Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Alan Watts

Best Quotes about Love

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

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

12.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

13.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

14.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

15.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

16.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

17.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

18.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

19.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

20.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

21.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

23.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

24.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

26.

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

27.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

28.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

29.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

31.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

32.

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

33.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

34.

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

Hugo, Victor

35.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

36.

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

Sarton, May

37.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

38.

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

39.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

41.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

42.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

43.

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

44.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

45.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

46.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

47.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

48.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

50.

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

Durrell, Lawrence