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

Thurber, James

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Carroll, Pat

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Euripides

10.

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

Chanel, Coco

11.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

12.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

13.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

15.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

16.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

18.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

19.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

20.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

21.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

22.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

23.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

24.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

26.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

27.

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

28.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

29.

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

Barry, Lynda

30.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

32.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

33.

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

34.

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

Plato

35.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

36.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

37.

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

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

42.

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

43.

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.

Madonna

44.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

45.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

46.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

47.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.