Christopher Isherwood Quotes

I think 'Lost' is like losing a friend or a relative or someone. You can't replace it with another one.

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

There's no redemption in being robbed. Yeah, maybe you can replace that thing, but it will never be the way it was when you got it the first time. It'll never have the same weight and preciousness again.

No one can replace Amanda Tapping.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

I know he would die if you died, Luce

I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you. It makes you think about them even when you're doing routine things. It makes you want to protect them, to make them happy and safe.

A girl's legs are her best friends...but even the best of friends must part.

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.

No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Never having been in love, this is going to be a real trick. I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother's face would light up at the sound of his boots at the door. The way she almost stopped living when he died.

I'm searching for a real love.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.