Motivational Quotes

Love

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Harrigan, John

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

10.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

11.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

12.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

13.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

14.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

15.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

16.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

17.

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

Wilde, Kim

18.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

19.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

20.

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

21.

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

22.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

23.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

24.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

25.

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

National Lampoon

26.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

27.

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

28.

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

Swift, Jonathan

29.

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

Hugo, Victor

30.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

31.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

32.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

33.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

34.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

35.

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

36.

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

Federman, Irwin

37.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

38.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

39.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

41.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

42.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

43.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

48.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

49.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

50.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde