Motivational Quotes

Love

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

Barry, Lynda

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

Allen, Woody

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

10.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

12.

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

13.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

14.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

15.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

17.

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

Levine, Stephen

18.

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.

19.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

21.

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

Smith, Sydney

22.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

23.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

24.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

28.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

29.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

30.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

31.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

32.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

33.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

34.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

38.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

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

40.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

41.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

42.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

43.

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

Davies, Robertson

44.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

45.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

46.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

47.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

48.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

49.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

50.

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

William Shakespeare