Fred Allen Quotes

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

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.

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 am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

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.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim 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.

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

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

A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.