Motivational Quotes

Love

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

- Tebbets, Frank

Best Quotes about Love

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

10.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

11.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

12.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

13.

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

Law, William

14.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

16.

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

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

19.

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

Pavese, Cesare

20.

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

21.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

22.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

23.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

24.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Martineau, Harriet

26.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

27.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

29.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

30.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

32.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

33.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

34.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

35.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

36.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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

42.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

43.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

44.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

45.

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

Orwell, George

46.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

47.

'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

48.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

49.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

50.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare