Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

Behn, Aphra

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

10.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

12.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

13.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

14.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

15.

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

16.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

17.

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

18.

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

19.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

25.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

26.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

27.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

28.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

29.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

30.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

31.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

32.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

33.

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

Connolly, Cyril

34.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

35.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

36.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

37.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

38.

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

Erica Jong

39.

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

Ice T

40.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Euripides

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

46.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

47.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

49.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

50.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand