Motivational Quotes

Love

The hottest love has the coldest end.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

William Shakespeare

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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

Hoffman, Lisa

10.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

11.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

13.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

14.

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

15.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

16.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

17.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

18.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

19.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

21.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

22.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

23.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

24.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

26.

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

27.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

28.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

29.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

30.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

31.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

32.

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

33.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

34.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

35.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

39.

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

Vicious, Sid

40.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

41.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

45.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

46.

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

47.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

48.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

49.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

50.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert