Motivational Quotes

Love

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

- Marino, Michael Garrett

Best Quotes about Love

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

Duras, Marguerite

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Elizabeth Aston

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Bible

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

11.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

12.

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

13.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

15.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

16.

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

17.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

18.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

19.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

21.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

23.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

24.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

25.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

27.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

28.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

29.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

30.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

32.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

33.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

34.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

38.

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

39.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

41.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

42.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

45.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

49.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

50.

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