Motivational Quotes

Love

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

- Jeanne Moreau

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

William Shakespeare

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 comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

10.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

12.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

13.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

14.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

15.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

16.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

17.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

18.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

23.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

24.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

25.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Voltaire

29.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

30.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

31.

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

32.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

33.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

Ferry, Brian

37.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

39.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

40.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

41.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

43.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

44.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

45.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

46.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

48.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

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

Fox, Emmet

50.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew