Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

- Nathan, George Jean

Best Quotes about Love

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Crawford, Joan

10.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

11.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

12.

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

13.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

15.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

16.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

20.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

22.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

24.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

25.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

26.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

27.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

28.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

30.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

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

32.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

33.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

34.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

36.

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

37.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

39.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

40.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

41.

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.

42.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

45.

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

Richardson, Nick

46.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

47.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

48.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

50.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare