Motivational Quotes

Love

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

Margaret Cho

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

10.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

11.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

12.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

13.

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

14.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

15.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

20.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Delp, Alexis

22.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

24.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

25.

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

26.

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

Martineau, Harriet

27.

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

28.

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

Traherne, Thomas

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

31.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

32.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

33.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

34.

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

Strindberg, J. August

35.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

36.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

37.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

38.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

39.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

42.

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

Eliot, T. S.

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

45.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

46.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

47.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

48.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

49.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

50.

A heart that loves is always young.