Pablo Neruda quotes

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.”

Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda Sonnet XX

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.

Pablo Neruda

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

The best proof of love is Trust.

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Hugh Downs

To say “my fate is not tied to your fate” is like saying “your end of the boat is sinking”!

- Hugh Downs

John Lecarre

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

- John Lecarre

Rose Franken

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Rose Franken

Judith Viorst.

“Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.”

–Judith Viorst.

Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

from the movie, “Indecent Proposal”

“The things that people in love do to each other they remember, and if they stay together it’s not because they forget, it’s because they forgive.”

from the movie, “Indecent Proposal”

Rudyard Kipling

If I was damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’mine.

~Rudyard Kipling

James Joyce 1882-1941, Irish Author

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.

James Joyce 1882-1941, Irish Author

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~

Mother Teresa.

If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much
selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For
faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love
and faith go together, they complete each other.

~Mother Teresa.

Eustace Budgell

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Eustace Budgell

Dorothy Nevill

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

– Dorothy Nevill

William Dempster Hoard

“Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.”

William Dempster Hoard

Marion Parker

“Be kind – Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle – everybody’s lonesome.”

Marion Parker

Gilda Radner, 1946-1989

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity”.

 Gilda Radner, 1946-1989

Alfred D. Souza

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin–real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Alfred D. Souza

Calvin- “You squeeze my tears out!”

Calvin.

“Why isn’t my life like a situation comedy? Why don’t I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren’t my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don’t my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? …I gotta get my life some writers.”

It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

“Pretty convenient how every time I build character, [Dad] saves a couple hundred dollars.”

“I’ve been visualizing the conceptualization process. That’s the hard part.”

“Are you crazy? This is a stupid, boring, time-wasting forced assignment! This isn’t fun!”

“Are you suggesting that this appliance didn’t aggravate me with malice aforethought?”

“Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test.”

“When you get something, it’s new and exciting. When you have something, you take it for granted and it’s boring.”

“I can’t help but wonder what kind of desperate straits would drive a man to invent this thing.”

“Do the words ‘complete pandemonium’ strike terror in your heart?”

“If warped values are the price of a vicarious thrill, so be it!”

“I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in and overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak.”

“I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.”

“I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what’s already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don’t care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can’t crank it out?”

“Now, a lifetime of experience has left me bitter and cynical.”

“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”

“Did you know that’s one of the ten warning signs of hopeless dweebism?”

“Nobody asks me how things oughta be! I’ve got tons of ideas!”

“I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!”

“These are interesting times. We don’t trust the government, we don’t trust the legal system, we don’t trust the media, and we don’t trust each other! We’ve undermined all authority, and with it, the basis for replacing it! It’s like a six-year-old’s dream come true!”

“If it was completely different, school would be great.”

“My time is valuable. I can’t go on thinking about one subject for minutes on end. I’m a busy man.” <!– –>

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Why should I have to WORK for everything?! It’s like saying I don’t deserve it!

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don’t get asked to do it again.

Childhood is short, maturity is forever.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

You know how people are. They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it.

As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway. <!– –>

True friends are hard to come by … I need more money.

There’s an inverse relationship between how good something is for you, and how much fun it is. <!– –>

(During a test) A gas mask, a smoke grenade, and a helicopter, thats all I ask.

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse!

I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak.

I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little pratice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little pratice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I’ll have a witty and blistering retort! You’ll be devastated THEN!

From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.

Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character

Aww mom, you act like I’m not even wearing a bungie cord!

It’s hard to conceal a water balloon

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Susie if you want to see your doll again, leave $100 in this envelope by the tree out front. Do not call the police you CANNOT trace us, you CANNOT find us. Sincerely, Calvin

I wanted to be a neo-deconstructivist but Mom wouldn’t let me

That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria! <!– –>

I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.

I understand my tests are popular reading in the teachers’ lounge.

Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.

Where do we keep all our chainsaws, Mom?

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?

It’s only work if somebody makes you do it

That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

In my opinion, we don’t devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don’t help.

Its no use! Everybody gets good enemies except me.

What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ‘em?

As a math atheist, I should be excused from this.

This one’s tricky. You have to use imaginary numbers, like eleventeen …

I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life … Procrastinating and rationalizing.

I have a hammer! I can put things together! I can knock things apart! I can alter my environment at will and make an incredible din all the while! Ah, it’s great to be male!

I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information .

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

~Jean Paul Richter

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

~Jean Paul Richter

Christopher Paul Rubero

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.

~Christopher Paul Rubero

Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Kahlil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Margaret Mitchell

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

~ Margaret Mitchell

from the movie “Someone Like You

“There is nothing sadder in this life than to watch someone you love walk away after they have left you. To watch the distance between your two bodies expand until there is nothing left but empty space… and silence.”

from the movie “Someone Like You

Otomo No Yakamoc

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

-Otomo No Yakamochi

“City of Angels”

“…I just don’t understand how God would let us meet, if there is no way for us to be together…”

from the movie “City of Angels”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To meet, to know, to love—and then to part,
Is the sad tale of many a heart.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thomas Campbell

Broken hearts die slowly.

~Thomas Campbell

George Lucas (1944 – ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

George Lucas (1944 – ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Anonymous

“Hell’s afloat in lover’s tears.”

Anonymous

Anais Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

-Anais Nin

Pearl Buck

There were many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be.

–Pearl Buck

Julia Roberts

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.

– Julia Roberts

Leo F. Buscaglia

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

– Leo F. Buscaglia

~Kahlil Gibran.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

~Kahlil Gibran.

Goncourt

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

Author: Vincent Van Gogh

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Author: Vincent Van Gogh

Kahlil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

– Kahlil Gibran

Richard Bach.

“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”

– Richard Bach.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson

Frederick William Thomas

‘Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not I’ve tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.

Author: Frederick William Thomas

Author: Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble (Mrs. Butler)

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

 Author: Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble (Mrs. Butler)

The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Paulo Coelho

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

Paulo Coelho

Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

From Movie ”A Walk To Remember”

“Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth and to hope and to endure whatever comes. There are three things that last faith, hope and love, and love is the greatest of these.”

~From Movie ”A Walk To Remember

Chris Moore

Love… What is love? Love is to love someone
for who they are, who they were, and who they will be.

~ Chris Moore ~

Mazie Hammond

Love, true love, is that which can give the most
without asking or demanding anything in return.

~ Mazie Hammond ~

Franklin P. Jones

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Franklin P. Jones

Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

Sir James M. Barrie

If you have it [Love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.

Sir James M. Barrie

Billy Crystal, from the movie “When Harry Met Sally”

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with a person, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”

Billy Crystal, from the movie “When Harry Met Sally”

Rose Franken

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Rose Franken

Judith Viorst.

“Lust is what makes you keep wanting it, even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you keep wanting to be with each other, even when you have no desire to do it.”

–Judith Viorst.

-Margaret Mitchell

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

-Margaret Mitchell

Robert Browning

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

–Robert Browning

John Lecarre

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

- John Lecarre

D. H. Lawrence

One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul…

~ D. H. Lawrence

Oprah Winfrey

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

“Did my heart love ’til now? Foreswear its sight–for I never saw true beauty ’til this night.”

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare, from Henry VI Act I Scene I

“I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.”

Shakespeare, from Henry VI Act I Scene I

“Indecent Proposal”

“The things that people in love do to each other they remember, and if they stay together it’s not because they forget, it’s because they forgive.”

from the movie, “Indecent Proposal”

A Walk to Remember

“Love is like the wind.. You can’t see it, but you can feel it.”

from the movie “A Walk to Remember”

-Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

-Oriah Mountain Dreamer

“Runaway Bride”

“I guarantee there’ll be tough times; I guarantee that at some point, one, or both of us is gonna wanna get out of this thing; But I also guarantee, that if I don’t ask you to be mine, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life… because I know in my heart, that you’re the only one for me.”

from the movie “Runaway Bride”

The Wedding Date

“I would rather fight with you than make love to anyone else.”

from the movie The Wedding Date

Martial

“You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.”

Martial

Roy Lessin

“How blessed I am that I can walk beside you, lean upon you, and live within the warmth of your love.”

 -Roy Lessin

Robert Southey

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the love of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.”

Robert Southey

William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (III, ii, 22)

“Not that I lov’d Caesar less, but that I lov’d Rome more.”

William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (III, ii, 22)

Mariah Carey

“Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.”

 Mariah Carey

When Love and Skill work together expect a masterpiece.

When Love and Skill work together expect a masterpiece.

Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

– Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004

George Eliot

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined..

to strengthen each other..

to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

- George Eliot

Irish Proverb

“It is in the shelter of each other that people live.” 

Irish Proverb

“I waited a lifetime to say I love you…”

If in this lifetime, I wont get to have you,
I’ll make sure that if I meet you in my next life
I wont have to think twice on saying that “I waited a lifetime to say I love you…”

Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

 Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding