Sara Zarr Quotes

It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.

The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.

Having a child with someone, you're always going to be respectful of that. But the song 'I Bet' was honestly inspired by my life experiences - I can't just say it's from one experience.

I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

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.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.

I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

Our ways of relating to each other become like habits.

I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?'

Everything happens for a reason. Like, I kind of hear people go, 'Man, you've been in a lot of bands.' Yes, I have. I've also been married several times, too, and every time I get into something, I think, 'This is the one.' I think that's just human nature.

Everybody writes about love and cheating and heartbreak. We've done all that.

All of us have been through relationships; there have been periods of time when we've been single. It's something that everyone experiences. It's a matter of making that observation and then start to ask questions about it: Why is it like that? And why do we feel that? And why are we organized this way? Isn't there any other way?

Life would be boring without gossip.

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.

There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character is. This guy is successful, he has everything, but his wife has left him. The most important value - love - is missing. What is wrong with this institution called 'marriage'? What is wrong with this institution called 'the pursuit of happiness'?