Sean Lennon Quotes

What had seemed like love was betrayal

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

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.

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

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

My love for you was bulletproof but you're the one who shot me.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.