Motivational Quotes

Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

- Yates, Douglas

Best Quotes about Love

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

12.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

13.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

15.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

18.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

20.

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

21.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

22.

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

23.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

24.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

25.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

27.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

28.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

29.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

30.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

32.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

33.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

34.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

35.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

36.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Desai, Yogi

39.

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

Capote, Truman

40.

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

41.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

42.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

44.

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.

45.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

46.

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

47.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

48.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

49.

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

Connolly, Cyril

50.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite