It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.'
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.
Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.
I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
I'm always after boys who don't want me, I'll tell you that much!
I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.
