Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

- Aragon, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

14.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

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

16.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

17.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

18.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

19.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

20.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

21.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

22.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

24.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

25.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

26.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

28.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

29.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

30.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

31.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

32.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

33.

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

34.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

36.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

37.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

38.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

39.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

40.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

41.

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

42.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

43.

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

Nathan, George Jean

44.

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

45.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

46.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

47.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

48.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

49.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

50.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William