Motivational Quotes

Love

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

2.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

3.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

4.

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

5.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

6.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

7.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

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

Victor Hugo

9.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

10.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

11.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

12.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

13.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

14.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

15.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

16.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

17.

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

18.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

19.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

21.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

22.

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

Bible

23.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

24.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

25.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

26.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

27.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

28.

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

Aragon, Louis

29.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

30.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

31.

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

Ackerman, Diane

32.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

34.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

35.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

38.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

39.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

40.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

41.

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

Federman, Irwin

42.

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

Mencken, H. L.

43.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

44.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

45.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

46.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

47.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

48.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John