Alice Hoffman Quotes

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.

Finding another person to love is finding another person to lose.

Only love can break your heart.

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

I had learned this lesson so many times before. It was the great inner truth that didn't require the support of logic. Every time I loved, I lost, and I was diminished. I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.

I honestly have no idea how to live without you.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Love is a hole in the heart.

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me.

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.

I think all of the best songs are about heartbreak and love.

Despair is part of love.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.