Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

Anderson, Margaret

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

Martineau, Harriet

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

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Shakespeare

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

10.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

11.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

13.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

17.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

18.

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

19.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

20.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

21.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

22.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

23.

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

24.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

26.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

27.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

28.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

31.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

32.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

33.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

34.

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

35.

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

Verse, A Haiku

36.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

37.

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

Davis, Bette

38.

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

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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

40.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

41.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

44.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

46.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

47.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

48.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

49.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.