Janis Ian Quotes

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.'

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

I was in love once. It was terrible.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

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.'

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.