Motivational Quotes

Love

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Duras, Marguerite

2.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

3.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

4.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

5.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

6.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

7.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

8.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

9.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

10.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

11.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

12.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

13.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

14.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

15.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

16.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

17.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

18.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

20.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

William Penn

23.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

24.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

25.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

26.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

27.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

28.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

30.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

31.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

32.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

33.

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

34.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

35.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

36.

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

Law, William

37.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

38.

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

Pavese, Cesare

39.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

40.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

41.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

42.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

44.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

45.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

46.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

47.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

48.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

49.

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