Marguerite Duras Quotes

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Just because someone tells you they love you, it doesn't mean they actually do.

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line.

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.

I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she didn't like me that way. I've definitely done time in the friend zone.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

I fall in love very easily.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

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

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

I thought I was loved.

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

I never fall in love.

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

Yes I got into things with girls who only liked me because of who I was. But I learnt my lesson quickly.

Park Sion in 'Good Doctor' had a heart-aching love, but I don't want such a thing. Love just should be a happiness.

First and foremost, 'Call Me by Your Name' is a story about love, and first loves, and unrequited, and then, later, requited love.

I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.