Eye Quote by John Buchan

Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.

— Norman Maclean

When I was in my late teens, a couple of friends passed away suddenly. This was quite distressing, but after a while, as tends…

— Ayobami Adebayo

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

— Harriet Martineau

She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love with but…

— Donna Tartt

I didn't have romances when I was in school. Girls didn't want to go out with me because I was blind.

— Jose Feliciano

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is…

— Archibald Hill

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

— Mason Cooley

“it wasn't uncommon... that such a girl might die young, but this girl had stayed alive long enough to make her mark, to take…

— Lawrence Schiller

Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle…

— Vladimir Nabokov

A friend of mine passed away unexpectedly at the very end of making 'Ghosts', someone who had been as close to me as someone…

— Mark Kozelek

I felt an intense loneliness after my sister died. I was seven at the time, she was eight, and I realised after her death…

— June Brown

I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

— Warsan Shire