Merle Haggard Quotes

I lost my one true love. I started drinking.

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow

A lot of friends have given up on me.

There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

The problem is, when I talk about heartbreak or whatever, people want to melt it down to some break-up of a relationship, but it's not about that. If you're a sensitive person, just stepping outside can be heartbreaking.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.

I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

No one doesn't have loss. No one doesn't have pain.

Loss and heartbreak are pretty universal.

Heartbreak is something which is part of every person.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

Even close people left me - I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.

Heartbreak is a real thing.

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.