Phyllis Bottome Quotes

Cupcake , you've been breaking my heart for as long as I've known you

Almost every person wonders who their soul mate will be or where they will find them and everyone has or will suffer a love loss or the fear of that loss at different points in their lives.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet.

Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.

Despair is part of love.

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.

Only love can break your heart.

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

There's no ifs and buts or maybes, you're gonna miss, you're gonna miss my loving.