Ava Gardner Quotes

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

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

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

I was adored once too.

I only had one boyfriend my whole life, and I never loved him.

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

I would have done the same thing I did. I would have put all my energy into loving someone that wasn't you. I would have tried in vain, every day, to not think about you, and what could have been. What should have been. I would have tried to convince myself that there's no such thing as true love, except for the love you yourself make work, even though I know better....The bottom line is I never had any business marrying anyone who wasn't you.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

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

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.

When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

I thought I was loved.

Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.