Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

10.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

11.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

12.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

13.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

14.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

15.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

16.

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

Mcdonald, George

17.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

19.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

20.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

21.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

22.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

23.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

25.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

26.

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

27.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

28.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

30.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

31.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

32.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

33.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

34.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

35.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

36.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

39.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

40.

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

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

44.

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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

49.

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

50.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley