Motivational Quotes

Love

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

- Delp, Alexis

Best Quotes about Love

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

11.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

12.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

15.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

16.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

17.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

18.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

20.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

21.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

22.

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

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

24.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

25.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

26.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

27.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

28.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

29.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

31.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

32.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

33.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

34.

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

Wilkerson, David

35.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

36.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

37.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

40.

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

41.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

42.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

43.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

45.

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.

46.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

47.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

48.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

49.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner