Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Groening, Matt

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

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

10.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

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

National Lampoon

12.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

13.

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

Murdoch, Iris

14.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

17.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

18.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

19.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

20.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

21.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

23.

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

24.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

Fox, Emmet

27.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

28.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

30.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

31.

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

32.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

33.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

36.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

37.

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

38.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

39.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

40.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

41.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

43.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

44.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

45.

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

Heinlein, Robert

46.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.