Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

Law, William

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

10.

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

Groening, Matt

11.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

12.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

13.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

15.

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

National Lampoon

16.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

20.

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

21.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

23.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

24.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

25.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Carmichael, Amy

27.

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

Calvino, Italo

28.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

29.

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

Burton, Robert

30.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

31.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

32.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

33.

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

34.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

35.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

36.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

37.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

39.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

40.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

41.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.