Karl Kraus Quotes

Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.

I wrote 'Evil Spider' about wanting someone that's already taken. I guess it was based on a personal experience, but I went a lil extreme on the theme... me being a spider trying to snare someone. In real life, I was just observing!

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

I'm always after boys who don't want me, I'll tell you that much!

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.

These people who do not get enough sex are always tring to stop the people who do.

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have. In the gap, we experience loneliness. It's distinct from the objective state of isolation, which is determined by the number of people around you.

Women and their bodies are beautiful. Men are always gonna want to follow them around.

I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.

It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that?

Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.