Robert A. Johnson Quotes

And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

The worst part is that I saw the whole thing -- our whole life. And I want it bad, Jake, I want it all. I want to stay right here and never move. I want to love you and make you happy. And I can't, and it's killing me.

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong.

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.

What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry.... But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a wonderful dream.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.