Roland Barthes Quotes

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

Romantic love is painful.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

Just like Lara Jean in my book 'To All the Boys I've Loved Before,' I used to write letters to boys I was in love with - letters full of emotion and longing and also recrimination - but they were for my eyes only.

For me, love is such a beautiful thing and I love that you actually have no control over it.

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.

Of course I had hundreds of crushes on boys!

I never have crushes, apart from my husband Michael, I guess, because I was obsessed with him, and I didn't speak to him for nearly a year. I kept going into the restaurant where he worked to look at him.

Eugene O'Neil is always exploring our want to love but can't get it out there.

I've been known for that. My emotions get the best of me.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.