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 begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

10.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

11.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

12.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

15.

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

16.

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

17.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

18.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

20.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

24.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

25.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

26.

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

27.

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

Richardson, Nick

28.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

29.

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

Ice T

30.

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

Southey, Robert

31.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

32.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

'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

34.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

35.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

36.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

37.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

38.

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

Sophocles

39.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

40.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

41.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

42.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

44.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

45.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

46.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

47.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

49.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

50.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles