Goapele Quotes

As I get older the stars have gone from my eyes more, and I see that life is just something that has to be lived with, that it's better not to struggle.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

When you are 15, everything is such high stakes, even tiny things. I think because of that, it is funny but sad at the same time.

I have songs about growing up, about ex-relationships - ex-relationship, I should say.

Everyone has relationships. Breakups are hard. Everyone graduates from school.

I've been dumped plenty of times, I can assure you of that.

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.

I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.

I don't understand men. I don't even understand what I don't understand about men.

I have definitely been in experiences where my girlfriends have outgrown me and that's ok and I think that I should be inspired by that to know that it's time to move on - it's time to evolve as well and I think that should be inspirational to other people. They shouldn't feel stifled and feel like oh we can't grow up, we can't move on - change is a good thing.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.

I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

You never understand anybody that loves you.