“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
http://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/chris-martin-admits-his-friendship-with-jayz-is-hilarious-28686561.html source
Gwyneth Paltrow to Q Magazine on the friendship they share with Jay Z & Beyoncé, 2011.
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.”
Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938), I Have It On Good Authority
Context: There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze,
And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees,
And they certainly annoy each other,
But they certainly enjoy each other,
Yes, they pretend to flout each other,
But they couldn't do without each other...
“Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.”
Carsten Jensen (1952) Danish author and political columnist
Source: We, the Drowned
“For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.”
Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (p. 75)
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
“The way I heard it, a contract is a list of all the ways two people don’t trust each other.”
David Gerrold (1944) American screenwriter and novelist
Source: Short fiction, The Further Adventures of Mr. Costello, p. 228
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
the human being's real quality, the delicate lights and shadows of human dreams, the sweet and complicated mystery of personalities, sensuous lovers deride them, both of them! They are two egoists, falling fiercely on each other. Together they sacrifice themselves, utterly in a flash of pleasure.
Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face