Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

- Ginsberg, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

James, William

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

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

Traherne, Thomas

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

Federman, Irwin

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

10.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

11.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

12.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

13.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

15.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

16.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

17.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

18.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

19.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

20.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

21.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

23.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

24.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

25.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

26.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

Margaret Cho

31.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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.

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

Wilde, Kim

34.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

37.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

38.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

39.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

40.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

41.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

42.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

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