Monica Hesse Quotes

Anyone can fall in love.

I really want to fall in love.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

With love, there are so many layers to it that you can write all day about it. It's not just heartbreak or falling in love; there's so many different ways to look at it.

A lot of 'Time' was actually about a friend's relationship and me seeing what she went through and how she felt.

I write songs about love because, above all, love is the most human thing we have together. Feelings are a part of us every day. You feel things every day, no matter where you are. So that's what I write about.

It's quite an easy way to write a concept album about love. Everything boils down to love in the end.

Smiles are the language of love.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'

Love is only one of many passions.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.

I'm still human - I can't not feel.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

That was essential to my journey: the ability to love children while simultaneously having your heart broken.