Karen > Karen's Quotes

“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“You make me thank god for every mistake I ever made, Because each one led me down the path that brought me to you.”
― Pablo Neruda, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
― Pablo Neruda

“You are like nobody since I love you.”
― pablo neruda

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?”
― Pablo Neruda

“I should like to sleep like a cat,
with all the fur of time,
with a tongue rough as flint,
with the dry sex of fire;
and after speaking to no one,
stretch myself over the world,
over roofs and landscapes,
with a passionate desire
to hunt the rats in my dreams.”
― Pablo Neruda

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”
― Pablo 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, Love Poems

“About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you ”
― Pablo Neruda

“I like on the table,
when we're speaking,
the light of a bottle
of intelligent wine.”
― Pablo Neruda

“I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the darkness”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live
will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Every day you play with the light of the universe.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“It is not so much light that falls
over the world
extended by your body
its suffocating snow,
as brightness, pouring itself out of you,
as if you were
burning inside.

Under your skin the moon is alive.”
― Pablo Neruda, oda a la bella desnuda y otros escritos de amor

“In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.”
― Pablo Neruda

“I am not jealous
of what came before me.

Come with a man
on your shoulders,
come with a hundred men in your hair,
come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet,
come like a river
full of drowned men
which flows down to the wild sea,
to the eternal surf, to Time!

Bring them all
to where I am waiting for you;
we shall always be alone,
we shall always be you and I
alone on earth,
to start our life!”
― Pablo Neruda

“I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.”
― Pablo Neruda, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“Oh, love is a journey with water and stars,
with drowning air and storms of flour:
love is a clash of lightnings,
two bodies subdued by one honey.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker

“Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.”
― Dorothy Parker

“If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

“I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.”
― Dorothy Parker

“If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.”
― Dorothy Parker