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

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

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

10.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

12.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

15.

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

16.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

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

18.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

20.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

22.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

23.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

30.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

35.

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

36.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

38.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

39.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

40.

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

Thurber, James

41.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Wilde, Oscar

46.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

48.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

49.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

50.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.