Motivational Quotes

Love

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Ice T

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

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

10.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

11.

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

12.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

13.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

14.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

15.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

16.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

17.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

18.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

19.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

20.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

21.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

22.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

24.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

29.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

32.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

33.

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

34.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

35.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

36.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

37.

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

38.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

39.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

41.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

43.

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

44.

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

45.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

47.

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

Orwell, George

48.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]