Motivational Quotes

Love

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

- Magnani, Anna

Best Quotes about Love

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

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

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

National Lampoon

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

10.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

11.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

12.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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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

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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 only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

18.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

19.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

Jerome, St.

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

25.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

26.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

27.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

28.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

29.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

31.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

32.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

36.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

37.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.