Motivational Quotes

Love

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sarton, May

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

12.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

13.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

14.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

16.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

17.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

18.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

19.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

20.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

21.

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

Bailey, Pearl

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

26.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

27.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

28.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

29.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

31.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Sophocles

39.

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

Proverb, Irish

40.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

41.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

43.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

44.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

45.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

46.

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

47.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

48.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

49.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

50.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt