Motivational Quotes

Love

I shall always be a priest of love.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Harrigan, John

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

10.

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

11.

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

Hoffman, Lisa

12.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

13.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

14.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

15.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

16.

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

17.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

18.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

22.

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

23.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

25.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

27.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

28.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

29.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

31.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

32.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

33.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

35.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

36.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

37.

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