Motivational Quotes

Love

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Orwell, George

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

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Byron, Lord

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Chanel, Coco

11.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

12.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

14.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

18.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

19.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

20.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

23.

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

Plato

24.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

26.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

27.

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

Pythagoras

28.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

29.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

30.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

31.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

32.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

35.

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

36.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

38.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

39.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

41.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

42.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

43.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

44.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

45.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

46.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

47.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

49.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

50.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.