Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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

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

Jeph Jacques

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

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

12.

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

Proverb, Jewish

13.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

14.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

15.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

16.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

17.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

18.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

19.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

20.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

23.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

24.

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.

25.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

30.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

31.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

34.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

35.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

36.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

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

Strindberg, J. August

38.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

39.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

41.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

42.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

44.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

45.

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

Bible

46.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

47.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

48.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

49.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.