Mira Nair Quotes

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

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

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.

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

There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, 'What was I thinking?'.

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.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless them, and I find myself wondering why--out of all the people in all the world I could ever have loved--I had to fall in love with someone who was taken away from me.

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

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.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

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

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

'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.

Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

At the age of 62, my father died of cancer - it was much too soon. My mother never remarried or got over it, never even thought of another man.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?