Denis Johnson Quotes

No relationship. I'm not looking for one, either. I've tried it, but it's harder than it seems.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

There hasn't been a great romance in my life.

When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.

We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.

nobody ever finds the one

All the little emptiness of love!

Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

Love doesn't last.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.