Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

11.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

14.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

16.

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

17.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

18.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

19.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

20.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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

Real Live Preacher

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

24.

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

Blanton, Smiley

25.

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

26.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

27.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

28.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

29.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

30.

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.

31.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

32.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

33.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

34.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

35.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

36.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

37.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

38.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

39.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

40.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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.

42.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

43.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

44.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

45.

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

Proverb, French

46.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

47.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

48.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

50.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace