A Quote by Pablo Neruda

Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

Pablo Neruda

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Brief Forgetting Lasts Long Love Love Is

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Pablo Neruda
Chilean - Writer
July 12, 1904 - September 23, 1973

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

Rachel Cusk

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

Carla Bruni

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Melissa George

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing.

Steve Burns

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.

Joel Achenbach

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

Love is short, but forgetting is long.

Pablo Neruda

Love is eternal for as long as it lasts.

Vinicius de Moraes

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.