Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

10.

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

11.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

12.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

15.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

16.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

17.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

18.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

21.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

22.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

23.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

25.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

27.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Calvino, Italo

29.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

30.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

32.

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

J. K. Rowling

33.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

34.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

35.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

36.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

Augustine, St.

38.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

39.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

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

Eucharista Ward

41.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

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

43.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

44.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

45.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

46.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

47.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.