Lucinda Williams Quotes

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

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.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

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

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

Love hurts more than hate.

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

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

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

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

I followed a guy to Denmark. I came home with a broken heart.

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.

I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.

I understand lost love, and I think that can destroy a man more than anything if it was a deep love that is lost somehow.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

If hearts could shatter, mine just did.

I've never had my heart broken.

Why is the measure of love loss?