Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

1.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

2.

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

Richardson, Nick

3.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

4.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

5.

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

6.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

7.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

8.

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

National Lampoon

9.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

14.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

15.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

16.

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

17.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

18.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

19.

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

Dane, Frank

20.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

21.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

22.

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

23.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

24.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

27.

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

David Viscott

28.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

30.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

32.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

33.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

34.

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

John of the Cross, St.

35.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

36.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

37.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

38.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

39.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

40.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

41.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

42.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

44.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

45.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

46.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

47.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

48.

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

Auerbach, Red

49.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

50.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.