Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

10.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

12.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

13.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

14.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

15.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

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

Real Live Preacher

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

20.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

21.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

22.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

23.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

24.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

25.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

26.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

27.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

29.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Clark, Melanie

31.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

32.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

33.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

36.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

37.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

38.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

39.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

44.

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

45.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

46.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

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

Law, William

48.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

49.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

50.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne