Ansel Elgort Quotes

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.

What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.

I met my share of boys but the end result was always the same - they weren't the right kind of men for me.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

I don't want to hang out with some guy I just like.

I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

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

I've got tooth marks on my heart.

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, 'I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.' And still I would question it. Did she mean it?

When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!

Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating.