David Mitchell Quotes

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

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.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

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

There is no love without loss. It’s a package deal.

Love's never a fair trade.

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

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.

And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.

I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.

This thing called love was a total mystery to me, but the vagaries of passion and despair that accompanied each devotion kept my life in high drama.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

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.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

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.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.