Motivational Quotes

Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

- Brooke, Rupert

Best Quotes about Love

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 ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

10.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

12.

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

13.

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

Duras, Marguerite

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

17.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

20.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

21.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

23.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

24.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

25.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

29.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

31.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

32.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

33.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

34.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

36.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

37.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

38.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

39.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

40.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

41.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

42.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

43.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

44.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

45.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

47.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

48.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

49.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van