Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

10.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

11.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

13.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

14.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

15.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

16.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

Brookner, Anita

18.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

19.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

20.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

22.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

23.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

24.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

25.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

26.

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

Ovid

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Rita Rudner

32.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

33.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

34.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

35.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

37.

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

38.

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

Behn, Aphra

39.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

40.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

41.

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

42.

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

43.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

45.

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

46.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

47.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

48.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

49.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.