Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

11.

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

12.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

13.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

14.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

15.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

16.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

'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

18.

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

19.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

21.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

24.

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

Sophocles

25.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

26.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

29.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

31.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

33.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Updike, John

35.

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

Dryden, John

36.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

37.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

38.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

41.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

42.

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

Seneca

43.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

44.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

45.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

47.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

48.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich