Jane Birkin Quotes

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

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

I suppose John ought to be the center of my life, but he's not because he's out of it so much of the time.

Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like.

I'm not gonna front and act like your boyfriend. I'm out here, you know what I'm saying?

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

I thought I was loved.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?

Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

I've been dumped hard. My heart has been broken and shattered, and I've also been on the other end of that too.

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 have experienced heartbreak but not in a classical sense.

Being dumped sucks, period.