John Donne Quotes

You can't go on telling, 'I am in love.'

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.

To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.

I didn't have many romantic relationships, and the romantic scent inside me was beginning to disappear.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

I thought I was loved.

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

The crime of loving is forgetting.

I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.

The heart wants what it wants, and you know, if you're not careful, you can find yourself in a situation where you give your heart away, and it can get broken.

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

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.