Love Is So Short, Forgetting Is So Long

12 quotes

This is what it feels like to be so deeply, and painfully, in love.

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: 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, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep…”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Forgetting, Memory, Girl Who Cares Too Much

“I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, Unrequited Love

“I touched you and my life stopped.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Touch, Love

“The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: beauty, Life, Love, tension, Nature

“The biggest stars look at me with your eyes. And as I love you, the pines in the wind want to sing your name with their leaves of wire.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.co.uk

Tagged: Love, Poetry, Poets, Writers, romance

“I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda

“I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda

“I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda

“Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartfelt Neruda