Joanna Coles Quotes

When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down.

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

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away.

Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

I experienced unrequited love early.

I still get attracted to people but having a relationship isn't fair on the other person.

I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.

I'm fortunate in that I don't think I've ever fallen in love with somebody who hasn't fallen in love with me. I actually think it's quite rare that that happens, in a true way.

Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

This is what it feels like to care about someone who doesn't feel the same. I'd only known how it felt to love someone who loved me just as fiercely. I'd never known rejection. I'd never wanted someone who didn't want me. The longing didn't go away with rejection.

We’ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in the face of constant disappointment, continue to believe that the intensity of their desire will be rewarded by an eventual jackpot of affection. And if that’s the slot machine you’re playing, friend, you’d better leave the casino ‘cause that one don’t pay out

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.