Julio Cortazar Quotes

At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

Romantic love is painful.

I'm a deeply romantic person, nostalgic to a fault.

I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.

I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago

You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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

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

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.