Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Love

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

10.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

11.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

13.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

14.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

15.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

16.

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

Proust, Marcel

17.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

18.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

20.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

21.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

22.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

24.

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

25.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

26.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

27.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

30.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

31.

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

Jeanne Moreau

32.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

35.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

36.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

37.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

38.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

39.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

40.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

41.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

43.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

44.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

46.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

47.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

48.

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

49.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

50.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De