Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love stories never have endings.

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Love

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

Charles M. Schulz

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

10.

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

Levine, Stephen

11.

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

12.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

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

14.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

16.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

17.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

20.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

21.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

22.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

23.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

24.

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

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

26.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

27.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

29.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

30.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

31.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

32.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

33.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

34.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

35.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

36.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

37.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

40.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

41.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

42.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

43.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

45.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

48.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

49.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.