Motivational Quotes

Love

Saddest Poem

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.

Write, for instance: The night is full of stars,
and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.

The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so many times under the infinite sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her.
How could I not have loved her large, still eyes?

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
To think I don't have her. To feel that I've lost her.

To hear the immense night, more immense without her.
And the poem falls to the soul as dew to grass.

What does it matter that my love couldn't keep her.
The night is full of stars and she is not with me.

That's all. Far away, someone sings. Far away.
My soul is lost without her.

As if to bring her near, my eyes search for her.
My heart searches for her and she is not with me.

The same night that whitens the same trees.
We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

I no longer love her, true, but how much I loved her.
My voice searched the wind to touch her ear.

Someone else's. She will be someone else's. As she once
belonged to my kisses.
Her voice, her light body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, true, but perhaps I love her.
Love is so short and oblivion so long.

Because on nights like this I held her in my arms,
my soul is lost without her.

Although this may be the last pain she causes me,
and this may be the last poem I write for her.

- Neruda, Pablo

Best Quotes about Love

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

William Shakespeare

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

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

Jeanne Moreau

11.

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

William Penn

12.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

13.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

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

16.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

17.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

19.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

20.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

22.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

24.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

25.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

26.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

29.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

30.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

31.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

32.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

33.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

34.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

35.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

36.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

37.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

38.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

39.

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

40.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

42.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

43.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

44.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

45.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

46.

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

47.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

48.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

49.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

50.

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

William Shakespeare