Frankie Cosmos Quotes

Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love

Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing.

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.

I don’t stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You’ll never be able to let him go. You’ll always feel wrong about being with me.” “The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you,” I say. Gale holds my gaze. “If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.

We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

I set off, off to kill the man I love.

When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

I cry really easily. If I see a butterfly, I'll practically burst into tears. So it's really hard for me to yell at people, because I'll feel so guilty about it. But if I don't, then they don't take me seriously and it's this endless cycle.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.

I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core, it's what I do. But I want to be a pro golfer. It's a love/hate relationship with golf. I can come away feeling so serene, and yet, it's the thing that I can let get to me to throw a club and say curses that don't even exist. I'm obsessed with something that won't let me master it. I don't know. I need therapy.

It cuts like a knife, but it feels so right.

Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.

Desire urges me on as fear bridles me" Bruno.