Simon Schama Quotes

I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys.

I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.

I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground.

I'm pretty sure I don't have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They're all either about, like, 'I hate you,' or 'You make me hate me.'

I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

I've never had my heart broken.

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?

I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned. When the one you love loves someone else.

This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

I think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.