Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Bible

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

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

10.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

18.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

19.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

20.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

21.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

22.

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

23.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

24.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

25.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

26.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

28.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

30.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

31.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

32.

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

Brookner, Anita

33.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

35.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

36.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

38.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

39.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

40.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

41.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

42.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

44.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

45.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

46.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

47.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare