Motivational Quotes

Love

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

10.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

11.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

14.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

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

16.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

17.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

20.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

21.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

24.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

25.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

26.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

27.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

28.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

29.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

30.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

31.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

32.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

33.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

34.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

35.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

Bible

37.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

39.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

40.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

41.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

42.

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

Euripides

43.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

44.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

49.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

50.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily