Motivational Quotes

Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

- Yates, Douglas

Best Quotes about Love

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Jane Austen

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

11.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

12.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

14.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

16.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

17.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

18.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

20.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

21.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

22.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

23.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

24.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

25.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

26.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

27.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

31.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

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

34.

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

35.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

36.

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

Paolo Giordano

37.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

38.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

40.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

41.

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

42.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

43.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

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

45.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

46.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

47.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

48.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

49.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

50.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis