Motivational Quotes

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

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.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

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

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

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

Learn what you are and be such.

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

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

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

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

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

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

I shall always be a priest of love.

Love alone could waken love.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

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

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great 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.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

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.

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

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

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

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

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

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

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