Motivational Quotes

Love

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

- Barry, Lynda

Best Quotes about Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

12.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

13.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

14.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

16.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

17.

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

18.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

19.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

20.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

21.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

22.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

23.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

24.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

25.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

26.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

27.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

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

29.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

30.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

33.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

36.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

37.

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

38.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

39.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

40.

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

41.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

42.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

44.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

45.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

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

Duras, Marguerite

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

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