Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Love

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

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

12.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

13.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

15.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

16.

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

17.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

19.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

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

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.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

23.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

24.

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.

25.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

26.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

28.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

30.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

32.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

35.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

36.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

37.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

38.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

39.

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

40.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

41.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

42.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

44.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

45.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

46.

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

47.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

48.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

49.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar