Motivational Quotes

Love

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

10.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

14.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

15.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

16.

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

Crawford, Joan

17.

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

Traherne, Thomas

18.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

19.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

20.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

24.

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

Bible

25.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

26.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

28.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

29.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

30.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

31.

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

Brookner, Anita

32.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

33.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

34.

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.

35.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

37.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

38.

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

39.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

40.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

41.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

42.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

43.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

44.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

45.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

46.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.