Motivational Quotes

Love

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

- Oxenham, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Duras, Marguerite

10.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

12.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

13.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

15.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

16.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Burton, Robert

20.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

21.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

25.

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

Murdoch, Iris

26.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

27.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

28.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

29.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

30.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

31.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

32.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

33.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

34.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

35.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

36.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

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

39.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

40.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

41.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

42.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

43.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

44.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

45.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

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

47.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

48.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

49.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

50.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.