Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

2.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

3.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

4.

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

Victor Hugo

5.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

6.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

7.

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

Vicious, Sid

8.

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

Jeph Jacques

9.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

10.

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

11.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

12.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

13.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

14.

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

Kempis, Thomas

15.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

16.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

17.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

18.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

Saltus, Edgar

20.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

23.

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

Calvino, Italo

24.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

25.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

27.

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

Law, William

28.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

29.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

30.

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.

31.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

32.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

35.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

36.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

37.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

38.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

39.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

40.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

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

Bourget, Paul

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

45.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

46.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

48.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.