Dorothy Parker Quotes

I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.

Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer someplace else," and there they go, out of your life forever, and after that until you're dead you're carrying around this huge hunk of love with no one to give it to. And if you do find someone to give it to, the same thing happens all over.

Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

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.

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.

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.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

Heartbreak is a real thing.

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'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times here and there.

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.