Lisa Joy Quotes

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.

Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

If you're a movie star, you get the girl, you lose the girl, and then you get her back. But if you're a character like me, you lose the girl, then you get another one, then you get another one, then you lose them all, then you lose your life.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying.

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.

From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine.

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.