Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Love is a state of being.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I don’t like being alone.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Friends are thieves of time.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.