Robert Indiana Quotes

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

I thought I was loved.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

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?'

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

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

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

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

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.

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.