Pablo Neruda Quotes

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

You ever feel like you know someone so much that they can breathe for you? Like when their chest and your chest rise and fall, they do it together because they have to? That's how it felt. That's how it always felt.

As one needs happiness so have I needed love; that is the deepest need of the human spirit. And as I love you utterly, so have you now become the whole world of my spirit. It is beside and beyond anything that you can ever do for me; it lies in what you are, dear love - to me so infinitely lovely that to be near you, to see you, hear you, is now the only happiness, the only life, I know.

I love you because you’re the only person I want to make love to without any conditions and—and I love that you need me.

Love is the cause of unity in all things.

With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms.

You and I have been through too much together. We're too close, too connected. I wasn't that crazy on spirit when I said you're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. Our backgrounds don't matter. What we have is bigger than that. I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.