--- title: "4 Wayne Johnston Quotes" description: "Wayne Johnston has 4 quotes on SMS4Smile. Browse their most insightful sayings." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/382/wayne-johnston-72474_grief_and-i-had-loved-her-i-had-at-least-once_455405.jpg" --- # Wayne Johnston **4** quotes in **7** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet ## Quotes by Wayne Johnston > [“And I had loved her, I had at least once in my life been capable of that, able to escape my self…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-johnston/and-i-had-loved-her-i-had-at-least-once-in-my-life-been-capable-of/) [Wayne Johnston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-johnston/) [Grief](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grief/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/382/wayne-johnston-72474_grief_and-i-had-loved-her-i-had-at-least-once_455405.jpg) > [“I exhausted myself trying to take it all in, noting every little variation and departure from how things were supposed to be.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-johnston/i-exhausted-myself-trying-to-take-it-all-in-noting-every-little/) [Wayne Johnston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-johnston/) [Cape breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cape-breton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d7/wayne-johnston-72474_cape-breton_i-exhausted-myself-trying-to-take-it-all_763461.jpg) > [“Nothing so reminds you like the sea that the enemy of life is not death but loneliness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-johnston/nothing-so-reminds-you-like-the-sea-that-the-enemy-of-life-is-not/) [Wayne Johnston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-johnston/) [Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cb/wayne-johnston-72474_death_nothing-so-reminds-you-like-the-sea-that_2475773.jpg) > [“You are, Devlin, too young to understand how rare a thing true love is, how unlikely in this world to happen, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-johnston/you-are-devlin-too-young-to-understand-how-rare-a-thing-true-love-is/) [Wayne Johnston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-johnston/) [Love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23f/wayne-johnston-72474_love_you-are-devlin-too-young-to-understand-h_2795014.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-johnston/#itemlist", "name": "Wayne Johnston Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“And I had loved her, I had at least once in my life been capable of that, able to escape my self long enough to love. 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