Motivational Quotes

Love

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Love

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Duffy, Maureen

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Sarton, May

10.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

11.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

12.

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

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

14.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

15.

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

Allen, Woody

16.

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

17.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

19.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

20.

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

Lennon, John

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

24.

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

25.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

26.

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

27.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

28.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

29.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

30.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

31.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

33.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

34.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

35.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

36.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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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

38.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

39.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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

43.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

44.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

45.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

47.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.