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

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

William Shakespeare

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

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

William Shakespeare

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Barry, Lynda

12.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

13.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

14.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

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

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

18.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

19.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

21.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

22.

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

23.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

24.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

25.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

26.

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

Bette Davis

27.

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

28.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

29.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

30.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

34.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

35.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

36.

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

37.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

39.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

40.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

41.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

42.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

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

Scott Westerfeld

44.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

45.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

46.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

47.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

48.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

50.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides