Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

I think all of the best songs are about heartbreak and love.

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

Despair is part of love.

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.

And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!