Today I woke up romantic! And it is that love, sooner or later, comes to all of us and although we resist not to suffer neither its most pleasant moments nor the most unfortunate, it is something that "alters" us all and changes our lives completely ... These writers who We will see below, with their appointments, they are also or agreed at the time. It doesn't have to be February 14, Valentine's Day, to remember the beautiful and the tragic of love, any day is nice to do it.
If you also woke up today, Tuesday, April 12 with the sensitive vein of love, keep reading these 20 literary love quotes that surely something will stir you inside if you are or were really in love at some point:
- Mario Benedetti in his poem «Shell heart»: «I have to love you love, I have to love you even if this wound hurts like two, even if I look for you and don't find you, and even if the night passes and I have you».
- Ninon de l'Enclos: "Love is a play in which the acts are very short and the intermissions very long. How to fill in the middle if not through ingenuity? ».
- Pablo Neruda in its "Twenty love poems": «I like you when you are silent because you are absent. Distant and painful as if you had died. A word then, a smile is enough. And I am happy, glad that it is not true.
- Jacinto Benavente: "In matters of love, crazy people are the most experienced. Never ask the sane about love; the sane love sanely, which is like never having loved ».
- Leon Tolstoi: "He who has only known his wife and loved her knows more about women than he who has known a thousand."
- Antonio Machado in its «Songs to Guiomar»: «Your poet thinks of you. The distance is lemon and violet […] Because a goddess and her lover flee together, panting, the full moon follows them ».
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: "Loving is not looking at each other; is to look together in the same direction ».
- Julio Cortazar: Come sleep with me: we won't make love. He will make us.
- Pablo Neruda: «Love is so short and oblivion is so long…».
- Anthony Gala: "True love is not self-love, it is what makes the lover open up to other people and to life; does not harass, does not isolate, does not reject, does not persecute: it only accepts ».
- Benito Pérez Galdós: "Why, if love is the opposite of war, is it a war in itself?
- Mario Benedetti: "My strategy is that on any given day, I don't know how or under what pretext you finally need me."
- Laura Esquivel: "The heat of the eyes of lovers melts the barrier that the flesh imposes and allows them to pass fully to the contemplation of the soul."
- Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez: "Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, even when they were two exhausted old men they continued to frolic like bunnies and fight like dogs."
- Voltaire: "You have to know that there is no country on earth where love has not turned lovers into poets."
- Stieg Larsson: «No one can avoid falling in love. Perhaps you want to deny it, but it is possible that friendship is the most frequent form of love.
- Pablo Neruda: "In a kiss, you'll know everything I kept silence".
- Stendhal: "Love is a wonderful flower, but it is necessary to have the courage to go and look for it on the edge of a horrible precipice.
- Octavio Paz: "Love is intensity and for this reason it is a relaxation of time: it stretches the minutes and lengthens them like centuries."
- Fernando Pessoa. : «I love how love loves. I know of no other reason to love than to love you. What do you want me to tell you besides that I love you, if what I want to tell you is that I love you? ».
Recommending books ...
And if these phrases have opened in you the bug and the desire to read books where love is the main topic, I recommend:
- "Sputnik, my love" y "Tokyo Blues", both from Haruki Murakami.
- "Love, women and life" Mario Benedetti.
- "Marine" by Carlos RuÃz Zafón when we have the information.
- "Twenty love poems and a desperate song" by Pablo Neruda.
- "Like water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel when we have the information.