Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Jewish

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

10.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

12.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

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

Pascal, Blaise

15.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

16.

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

17.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

19.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

20.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

21.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

22.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

23.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

24.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

25.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

26.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

27.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

28.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

29.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

30.

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

Bible

31.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

32.

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

33.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

34.

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

35.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

36.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

37.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

38.

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

Martineau, Harriet

39.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

40.

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

41.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

42.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

43.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

44.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

45.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

46.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

47.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

48.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

49.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

50.

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

Shakespeare, William