Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

10.

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

Mcdonald, George

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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

Sophocles

13.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

14.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

John Sheffield

18.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

21.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

22.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

23.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

24.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

27.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

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

Charles M. Schulz

29.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

30.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

31.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

32.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

34.

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

Chanel, Coco

35.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

36.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

37.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

38.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

39.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

41.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

42.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

43.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

46.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

47.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

48.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.