Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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

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

Pythagoras

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

10.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

12.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

14.

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

Jane Austen

15.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

16.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

17.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

19.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

20.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

21.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

25.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

26.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

27.

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

Du Coeur

28.

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

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

30.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

31.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

32.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

33.

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

Calvino, Italo

34.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

36.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

37.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

38.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

39.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

40.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

44.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

45.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

46.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

48.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

49.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

50.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda