Ogden Nash Quotes

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

I followed a guy to Denmark. I came home with a broken heart.

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.

There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

Ally McBeal walks down the streets crying, looking for the right man. I don't do that.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

I think you always have regrets.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

Maybe it would have been better if neither of us had been born.

Sometimes people come up to me and say, 'You were my teen crush.' I'm honored and I'm touched, but I also ask, 'What happened? Why'd you take the poster down?' I get a little heartbroken in that situation.

Yves Saint Laurent didn't have friends. He loved nobody. He was intimate with nobody.

My love life is not as interesting as people think it is.

I always identified with Frankenstein because as a kid, I never got the girl.