Daniel Handler Quotes

There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.

I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me.

I have been in relationships, and I felt that I was in love, but I don't know if love lasts forever.

When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don't want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are.

Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

The heart of marriage is memories.

Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

A journey is measured in friends, not miles.

I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.