Robert Penn Warren Quotes

But I thought love would more than prevail.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

When we grow up, we tend to forget our first crush, first love, as we move along. Only when you see something on TV or hear someone say something do you go back to those moments.

First love is such a big thing growing up.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

At first, one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost.

I thought I was loved.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a whole year, and I finally I got to be with her, and the interest vanished. I'm a terrible person. I was 17, and she was in my class.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

But you built me dreams instead.

I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken