Motivational Quotes

Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Love

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Brookner, Anita

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

10.

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

11.

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

12.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

13.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

14.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

17.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

18.

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

Hay, Louise L.

19.

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

20.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

21.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Proust, Marcel

26.

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

27.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

28.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

29.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

30.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

33.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

34.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

35.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

36.

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

37.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

38.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

39.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

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

Behn, Aphra

41.

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

42.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

44.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

45.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

46.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

47.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

49.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

50.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert