“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
More from Pablo Neruda on Love
“Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.”
“Love! Love until the night collapses!”
“I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is why I do not love you yet.”
“I cannot quit your love without dying.”
“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
“You are like nobody since I love you.”
“I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you”
“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12 quotes“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”