Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is not impatient is not in love.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

2.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

3.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

4.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

5.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

6.

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

Vicious, Sid

7.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

8.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

9.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

13.

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

14.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

16.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

17.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

18.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

20.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

21.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

22.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

23.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

25.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

26.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

27.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

29.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

30.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

34.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

35.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

36.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

37.

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

38.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

39.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

40.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

41.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

42.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

43.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Pascal, Blaise

45.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

46.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

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

49.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

50.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John