Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Barry, Lynda

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

10.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

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

12.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

13.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Wilde, Kim

17.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

18.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

20.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

22.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

23.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

26.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

27.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

28.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

31.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

32.

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

Ferry, Brian

33.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

35.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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

Groening, Matt

38.

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

39.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

41.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

42.

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

43.

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

Kempis, Thomas

44.

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

Connolly, Cyril

45.

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

Peguy, Charles

46.

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

Vicious, Sid

47.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

50.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy