Ali Hewson Quotes

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.

Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.

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

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

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

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Don't walk out of here. I can't lose you.

—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

'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.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

It takes bravery to end a relationship.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.