Roxane Gay Quotes

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

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

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

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.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Love is pure and true; love knows no gender.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

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.'

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.