Patrick deWitt Quotes

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

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.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

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 have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

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

Absence - that common cure of love.

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The villain in 'Call Me by Your Name' is the tragedy of love - what seems to be part of the deal you sign with someone when you experience an amazing time with them.

The heart wants what it wants, and you know, if you're not careful, you can find yourself in a situation where you give your heart away, and it can get broken.