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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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

Strindberg, J. August

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

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

10.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

Jennifer Aniston

14.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

16.

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

Capote, Truman

17.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

19.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

20.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

21.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

22.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

24.

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

25.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

26.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

27.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

Buddha

30.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

31.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

34.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

35.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

36.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

37.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

38.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

39.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

40.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

44.

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.

45.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

46.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

48.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

49.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.