Browse 224 quotes about Selfless Love.
“A Dingbat Lover (The Sonnet)
Better be a dingbat in love,
Than play ping-pong with hearts.
Better be bonkers in sacrifice,
Than an arrogant smartypants.
Better give all without reserve,
Than be selfish and just take.
Better be wiped out in service,
Than take greed to your grave.
Better look idiot and learn,
Than be proud and stagnant.
Better be trusting and cheated,
Than a cynic scraping love's remnant.
There is no guarantee in life and love.
If you want guarantee open a liquor shop.”
Source: Girl Over God: The Novel
“Heartbreak is inevitable, heartlessness is optional.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“Promise of messy love only sweetens by indignity.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Redemption (Love Sonnet)
My crisis is you,
My comfort is you.
My courage is you,
My cowardice you.
My solace is you,
my menace is you.
My prowess is you,
my encumbrance too.
You are my curse,
my only cure.
You are my answer
to selfish lure.
You are my redemption,
my petrification.
You're my fearlessness,
my chosen damnation.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Your wound is my wound,
Your heartbreak is my heartbreak.
Iceage apes pleasure pouring salt,
To human wounds I am bandaid.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“To be wounded in love,
Is to be healed by love.
To be broken in love,
Is to awaken in love.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“I looked for love,
I found pain.
I avoided pain,
I lost love.
I looked for pain,
I found love.
I accepted pain,
I discovered joy.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Lyubimaya (The Sonnet)
I am happy - I am happy
to see that you are happy.
May they give you all the joy,
Of which you dreamt with me.
I was just a struggling autodidact,
yet to be the legend I made myself.
How was I supposed to settle down,
in the balkans with white picket fence!
Partners with infinite patience,
only ever exist in fairytales.
Yet I feel no grudge whatsoever,
as they're happy with their choice.
There's a divine bliss in being dumped,
at least one is no longer a burden.
Purpose of love is to see another happy,
not to sentence them to life-imprisonment.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Pain of love is pearl of love.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Vaishusmriti (The Sonnet)
Those few afternoon trips back from uni,
With her head on my shoulder, were utopia.
My stomach was bursting with butterflies,
But my lips could barely utter a word.
My shirt got seeped with her intoxicating scent,
But her heart was posted to another man's mail.
Yet how can you begrudge someone you once loved!
It's okay to lose your heart to the wrong people.
Hadn't she rejected me, I'd have ended up
yet another nobody in the sea of engineers.
When life shatters you to a million pieces,
Get up and give back life some middle finger.
If you must love, love without any agenda,
If they love you back, your heart grows softer,
If they break you, your heart grows stronger,
Either way, in act of love there is no failure.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“If you must love, love without any agenda,
If they love you back, your heart grows softer,
If they break you, your heart grows stronger,
Either way, in act of love there is no failure.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Are you in love?
Yes.
Are you in pain?
Always.
Are you happy?
Always.
In awe they ask me,
how can you be all at once!
I smile, and respond,
because I am alive.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Painless love is puppy love,
Adult love is a circle of joyful disasters.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Being of heart resists no hurt,
they savor poison like fine wine.
The benevolent takes no notice of betrayal,
while the somnolent just moan and whine.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“It takes a lot of heart to build trust,
Even more to keep the trust.
But what if both hearts are in pieces,
How will they ever overcome their past!
The answer is really quite simple, and yet,
It is the last revelation to be crystal clear.
Seek not for perfection but for the being,
Broken in heart but intact in character.
The road to joy is paved with broken hearts,
Broken heart is something to cherish not mourn.
Heart not broken is a heart devoid of life,
That's how the pieces of two fit together as one.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Love is the bane (The Sonnet)
Love is the boon,
Love is the bane.
Love is relief,
Love is the pain.
From love will come your troubles,
From love will rise your answer.
You'll fail in love, you'll fly in love,
In love's insanity your sight will clear.
Love is torture,
Love is disaster.
Love exposes the counterfeits,
While it purifies the lover.
In a world run by calculating coldness,
be the anomaly of love insensible.
Cure for this anemic world, is your love impossible.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Love is the boon,
Love is the bane.
Love is relief,
Love is the pain.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Crueler the punishment, braver the love,
It is no love that avoids punishment.
Only half lovers try to keep pain at bay,
Soaked in pain true lovers emerge triumphant.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“If you really loved her, you'd try to reach out to her gently! If you really loved her, you'd try to understand her - her confusions, her anxieties, her fear!”
Source: Woman Over World: The Novel
“Tears of a lover are diamonds of divinity.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“For someone who lives in love, pain is nourishment.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“इस अनिश्चित जीवन में 'विश्वास' ही आशा का वह दीप है जो समाज को जोड़े रखता है। निस्वार्थ प्रेम और पवित्र विश्वास अपराध नहीं हैं, वरन जीवन का आधार हैं।”
Source: त्रिकूट: धर्म का चक्रव्यूह
“Kiss on lips speaks romance,
kiss on cheek speaks affection,
kiss on forehead speaks safe haven.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Understanding is the mothertongue of love.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“There's a difference between being horny and being in love, when you are horny, you want release - when in love, you don't want to be released.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Anybody can stay the night, takes backbone to stay the life.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“You don't need to own a person to be loved by them.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Scars shared are scars cared.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“My science is you, my art is you,
The morning of my mind is you.
Home is you, my heaven is you,
The truth of my life is you.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Be her paradise, not prison.
Be her man, not master.
Be a miracle to her maladies.
Be her crown, not custard.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Don't look for someone you can talk sense with, find someone with whom you can talk nonsense.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Come delight, come devastation, the aim of love is to love, with or without reciprocation.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“A world anemic in love needs a day to celebrate love. I am a lover eternal, for me every day is valentine's day.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Everything is beautiful when you are with me, 'cause you are my ecstasy.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“The One of My Heart (The Sonnet)
I see the one of my heart,
In every direction, in every face.
Yet I won't say a word,
In silence I'll bear all coldness.
You may throw me out of your heart,
But you can't oust yourself from mine.
You are in every pore of my being,
You are my only lifeline.
You are the one that runs in my nerves,
As the power-grid of my mind.
The pain of being a one-sided lover,
Is sweeter to me than a thousand goldmines.
Cuss me, mock me, hurt me all you like.
All I care about is to be an aid in your life.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“To Seduce You With Looks (The Sonnet)
I haven't come to seduce you with looks,
I have come to overwhelm you with love.
I haven't come to break your door by force,
I’ve come to charm it open with my mind’s touch.
I haven't come to bring you worldly riches,
But to offer you the garland of my heart.
I haven't come to usher you with complements,
I’ve come to celebrate you, tearing myself apart.
I haven't come to count the benefits of bond,
I’ve come to make you lose count of your wounds.
I haven't come to feel butterflies in my stomach,
But to fight the world, helping you break all rules.
Let me burn to ashes time and time again,
So I may remove the shadows from your life's lane.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Your trouble is my trouble, without you by my side all victory is vile.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“A life without love is but death in disguise.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Lover off The Street (A Sonnet)
Beauty and bliss are all around,
When my feet walk alongside yours.
Life reaches the pinnacle of being,
When I'm annihilated for a smile of yours.
Climbed plenty hills, trotted plenty jungle,
Nowhere did I find a drop of sanity.
Then I stood crazy before your radiance,
And I got drenched in beams of serenity.
I am but a naïve lover off the street,
Without a single trace of intellect.
The only thing that I've learnt in life is,
In your happiness lies my upliftment.
Business is measured by how much we receive,
Life is realized when we stand hellbent to give.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“My science is you, my art is you. The morning of my mind is you.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“I am not asking you to walk away from your path, but you cannot stop me from changing mine to be near you!”
Source: Girl Over God: The Novel
“Only if you could love the other without insecurity, without possessiveness, without reward, then you could taste the real infinite sweetness of life.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn’t blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen.”
“Love may happen by chance, but it must be nurtured by choice.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“When I Found Thee (The Sonnet)
When I found thee,
40 inch chest turned 50.
When I found thee,
A savage mind realized humanity.
When I found thee,
A poor vagabond became a beacon.
When I found thee,
A cowardly heart became a lion.
Every cunning tradesman says,
The trade of love is sheer torment.
I say, better love and be hurt,
For wounds of love are a lover's ornament.
You appeared, and I found hope in every corner.
Even amidst all hell I saw paradise appear.”
Source: Woman Over World: The Novel
“My Sanctuary (The Sonnet)
Next to the sea of arabia,
I laid my eyes on a fairytale.
At her sight the continents vanished,
At her voice all scores turned stale.
I sat there at the back listening,
As she stood up at the podium to speak.
One distant glance was enough,
And I forgot that I was a scientist.
My native land had given me nothing but heartache,
But the syllables of her lips caressed me as ointment.
In a long time I felt at peace, without the rush of chase,
My tired soul found sanctuary in her elysian presence.
But mark me well, love is not about being the recipient,
It's about caring even without the other's awareness.”
“I love, therefore I live.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Beyond all crucifix and calculus, Love is the only cosmic education.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Humanitarian Behaviorism
(The Sonnet)
Give me a drop of love,
I'll shower you with monsoon.
Hit me with loads of hate,
I'll silently disappear soon.
I don't approve of hate in return,
I just walk away from wrong done to me.
Wrong done to another is another matter,
I am the bulldozer, if you are the bully.
I am a biologist and behaviorist after all,
I don't need to do harm to restrain harm.
Weaknesses of the apes are my common knowledge,
Where there is brain, there's no need for brawn.
Brain used to lift the world,
is the only human brain.
All else is mindless protoplasm,
ever-consumed with greed and gain.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Love is the bedrock of us all.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations