Mike Mignola Quotes

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

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.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

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

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

I dote on his very absence.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

Romantic love is painful.

Eating cold tuna fish out of a tin on a porch while two people are in love across a lake - I think that's desperately lonely.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

I wish I wrote 'Don't Speak' by No Doubt. I mean, that is a classic heartbreak song; it gets me every time.

All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.

You can miss someone every day and still be glad you don't have to see them.

I'm a silly little needy person sometimes, and I crouch in a room all alone and think of all the people that I wish were with me.

'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.