Daniel Handler Quotes

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

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

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

Those dreams I have at night are going to drive me crazy. Last night I dreamed that little red-haired girl and I were eating lunch together... But she's gone... She's moved away, and I don't know where she lives, and she doesn't know I even exist, and I'll never see her again... And... I wish men cried.

Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.

I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?

I spent the rest of the day doing little more than that. I skipped dinner. I shed a few tears. But mostly, I just sat on my bed thinking and growing more and more depressed. I also discovered the only thing worse than imagining Dimitri and Tasha together was remembering when he and I had been together. He would never touch me again like that, never kiss me again.

I've lost the one girl I found.

Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.

Why must I be lonely in love?

We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her.

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

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.

'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.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.