Alice McDermott Quotes

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

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

We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

You can't fast-forward heartbreak, and you can't rewind love - and that's just one big bummer.

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

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

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

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Everyone, whether you are married or have a boyfriend or girlfriend, there's always someone who has a hold of your heart. You learn to let it go, but there's always a place in your heart. For me, it was someone I went to college with and we had an amazing bond, but I left.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

I'll see you in my dreams.

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

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.