Motivational Quotes

Love

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Love

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Duras, Marguerite

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

Bible

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

11.

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

12.

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

13.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

14.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

15.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

16.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

17.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

18.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Sarton, May

21.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

22.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

23.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

24.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

26.

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

Seneca

27.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

28.

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

Calvino, Italo

29.

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

Groening, Matt

30.

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

National Lampoon

31.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

32.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

33.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

34.

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

Julie Morgenstern

35.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

36.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

37.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

38.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

39.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

40.

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

Pascal, Blaise

41.

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

42.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

43.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

44.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

45.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

46.

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

47.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

48.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

49.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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