Motivational Quotes

Love

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

- Lewis, Sinclair

Best Quotes about Love

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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

Duras, Marguerite

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Anouilh, Jean

10.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

11.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

12.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

13.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

14.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

16.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Brookner, Anita

20.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

21.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

23.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

24.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

25.

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

26.

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

National Lampoon

27.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

28.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

29.

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

30.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

31.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

32.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

33.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

34.

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

35.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

36.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

37.

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

38.

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

Heinlein, Robert

39.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

40.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

41.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

43.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

44.

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

45.

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

David Viscott

46.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

47.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

48.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

49.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

50.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas