Motivational Quotes

Love

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

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

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

William Shakespeare

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

10.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

11.

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

12.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

13.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

16.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

17.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

18.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

19.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

20.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

27.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

28.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

29.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

30.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

31.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

32.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

33.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

34.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

35.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

36.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

41.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

42.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

43.

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

Toni Morrison

44.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

45.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

46.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

48.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

49.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

50.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.