Penn Jillette Quotes

I didn't think I was doing anything bad by falling in love.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.

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.

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

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

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

For me, 'Amy' is a very dark film about love.

People kill for love. They die for love.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

You show me a murderer, and I'll show you a person who's been failed in the supreme need for love, who never learned how to love, and will hate

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure

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'm quite sure we all have a sweet love song that we dance to or recall from our wedding or something, like 'At Last,' but I think that it is the love-gone-wrong songs that touch even men.

No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.

All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof.

I was in the orphanage in New Orleans until I was almost a year old. I don't think I ever got held by my mama, so that was completely and utterly traumatic. I think it was trauma from the first breath, and I think I've spent my whole life trying to heal from that trauma. So it shaped my brain.

I had a bad habit of falling in love with any girl who was nice to me.

Romeo and Juliet' is two love addicts acting out, and look how that ended.