Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Saltus, Edgar

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

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Connolly, Cyril

11.

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

12.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

16.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

17.

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

Pavese, Cesare

18.

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

19.

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

Bourget, Paul

20.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

21.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

22.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

23.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

24.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

25.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

26.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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

28.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

29.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

32.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

33.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

34.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

35.

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

36.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

37.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

38.

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

39.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

42.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

44.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Fromm, Erich

46.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

47.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

48.

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

49.

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

Parker, Dorothy

50.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi