Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

- Judalet, Curtis

Best Quotes about Love

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

10.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

11.

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

Calvino, Italo

12.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

13.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

14.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

15.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

17.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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

19.

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

Eucharista Ward

20.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

21.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

23.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

25.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

26.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

27.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

28.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

31.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

34.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

36.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

37.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

38.

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

39.

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

43.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

45.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

46.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

47.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

48.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

49.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah