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

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

10.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

12.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

13.

'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

14.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

15.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

16.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

19.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

20.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

22.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

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

Harrigan, John

24.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

26.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

27.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

28.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

29.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

31.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

32.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

33.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

34.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

35.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

36.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

39.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

40.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

41.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

42.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

45.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

46.

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

47.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

49.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

50.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh