Motivational Quotes

Love

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

- Williams, William Carlos

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

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

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

10.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

13.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

14.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

15.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

17.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

18.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

20.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

21.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

22.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

23.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

24.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

26.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

27.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

28.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

29.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

30.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

31.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

32.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

33.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

34.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

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

36.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

37.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

38.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

39.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

40.

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

Plato

41.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

42.

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

43.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

44.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

45.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

46.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

48.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Proverb, Irish