Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Wilde, Kim

Best Quotes about Love

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Sophocles

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

10.

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

11.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

12.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

13.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

14.

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

15.

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

Ice T

16.

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

17.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

18.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

19.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

20.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

21.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

23.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

24.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

25.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

26.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

27.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

29.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

30.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

Fromm, Erich

33.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

36.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

37.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

38.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

39.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

40.

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

Richardson, Nick

41.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

42.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

43.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

44.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

45.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

47.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

49.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

50.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani