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

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

12.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

13.

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

Ice T

14.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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.

16.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

17.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

18.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

19.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

20.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

21.

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

22.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

26.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Scott Westerfeld

28.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

29.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

31.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

32.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

33.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

35.

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

Toni Morrison

36.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

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

38.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Anouilh, Jean

41.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

42.

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

Donne, John

43.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

44.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

45.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

46.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

47.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

48.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher