Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

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's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

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.

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.

My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him.

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

You're not sick you're just in love.

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

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

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.

'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.

Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.

What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes

I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.

I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

When I see ya baby girl, I miss feelin on ya. I miss everything that's real about ya and that's everything about ya, that's just how I feel about ya

All my life I have dreamed of you.