The best Quotes by Pablo Neruda

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

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.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.

If this is love, I don't want it. Take it away, please! Why does it hurt so much?

Never say goodbye, because goodbye means going away - and going away means forgetting.

Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me. I didn't plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Its so hard to forget someone, who gave you so much to remember.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

The world breaks us all and afterwards, some are stronger at the broken places.

It's funny how someone can break your heart, and you still love him with all the little pieces.

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.

You're never too old to be young.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

A woman can be gorgeous at 19, charmimg at 29, but only at 39 she is irresistible for the rest of her life. And no woman that has been irresistible, ever turns older than 39.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

Oh, we got bread. I can't eat you, but I'm gonna look at you!

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. For example, you're walking along minding your own business, you're looking neither to the left, nor to the right, when all of the sudden, you run smack into a pretty face. You begin to get weak in the knees, your head's in a whirl! And then you feel light as feather, and before you know it you're walking on air! And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop! And you completely lose your head!

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime.

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.

I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.