Motivational Quotes

Love

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Love

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Hoffman, Lisa

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Proust, Marcel

10.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

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

Vicious, Sid

12.

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

13.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

14.

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

Sophocles

15.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

16.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

17.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

19.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

20.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

21.

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

22.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

24.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

25.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

26.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

27.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

29.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

30.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

33.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

34.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

35.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

36.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

37.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

40.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

41.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

42.

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

43.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Jerome, St.

45.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

46.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

47.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

49.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

50.

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