Motivational Quotes

Love

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Love

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Crawford, Joan

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

10.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

16.

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

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

19.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

20.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

21.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

24.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

26.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

30.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

31.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

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

Eucharista Ward

33.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

34.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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.

36.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

37.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

38.

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

Delp, Alexis

39.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

40.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

41.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

42.

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

Jerome, St.

43.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

44.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

45.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

46.

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

47.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

49.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

50.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas