Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

- Kempton, Sally

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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

Bertrand Russell

11.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

12.

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

William Penn

13.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

14.

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

Irving, Washington

15.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

16.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

19.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

20.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

21.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

22.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

23.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

24.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

26.

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

27.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

28.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

30.

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

31.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

32.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

33.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

34.

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

35.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

38.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

39.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

40.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

43.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

44.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

45.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

46.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

47.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

49.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

50.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.