Motivational Quotes

Love

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Youngman, Henny

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

15.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

16.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

18.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

19.

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

20.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

21.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

22.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

23.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

24.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

26.

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

27.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

28.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

29.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

30.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

31.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

32.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

33.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

34.

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

35.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

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

Bourget, Paul

37.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

40.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

41.

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

42.

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

Ackerman, Diane

43.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Swift, Jonathan

47.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

48.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

49.

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