Vikram Seth Quotes

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

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

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

'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.

Despair is part of love.

Only love can break your heart.

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

It isn't possible to love and to part.

I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven. I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back.

O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye, my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.

I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

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