Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

- Roethke, Theodore

Best Quotes about Love

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Sarton, May

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

10.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

11.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

12.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

13.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

16.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

18.

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

19.

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

Erica Jong

20.

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

Harrigan, John

21.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

22.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Jerome, St.

24.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

27.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

28.

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

Buber, Martin

29.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

30.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

31.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

32.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

33.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

34.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

35.

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

36.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

38.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

40.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

41.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

42.

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

43.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

44.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

46.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

47.

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

48.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare