Harry Chapin Quotes

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.

Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.

I have had my share of relationships and broken hearts, so there has been a proper balance in life.

Anyone who tells you that it is better to have loved and lost that to never loved at all has never done both.

Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.

Only love can break your heart.

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.

I'm 18 so I'm still young and I'm still learning. But I mean, relationships in general are hard.

Pills n potions.. We're overdosin.. I'm angry but I still love you

Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new one comes along... So I would choose to be with you. That's if the choice were mine to make. But you can make decisions too. And you can have this heart to break. And so it goes, and so it goes. And you're the only one who knows.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet.