Motivational Quotes

Love

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

- Elton, Ben

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Ice T

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

Mencken, H. L.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

10.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

13.

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

14.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

15.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

16.

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

17.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

19.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

20.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

21.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

23.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

26.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

27.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

28.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

31.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

32.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

Federman, Irwin

37.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

38.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Calvino, Italo

42.

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

43.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

44.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

46.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

47.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

48.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

49.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

50.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David