China Mieville Quotes

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.

A man's ideal woman is the one he couldn't get.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.

I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.

Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

I shall continue to be an impossible person so long as those who are now possible remain possible.

We were trying to achieve miracles and reduce the world to what it cannot be.

I see people around me with very unhappy love lives, who may have held out for that perfect somebody. And the failure to achieve that brings along a lot of bitterness which is very unattractive; therefore they're probably less likely to achieve it.

South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'