Pablo Neruda Quotes

Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

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

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly.

In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.

Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.

What did the earth teach the trees?
How to speak to the sky.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

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

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 your eyes close.