Orhan Pamuk Quotes

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

Absence - that common cure of love.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

Romantic love is painful.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

Love hurts more than hate.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.