“When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
F. Scott Fitzgerald411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“Don't tell me you don't know what love is
When you're old enough to know better.”
Elvis Costello (1954) English singer-songwriter
Everyday I Write The Book
Song lyrics, Punch the Clock (1983)
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
It Seems You Only Love Me When It Rains
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)
Bart D. Ehrman (1955) American academic
Source: God's Problem (2008), Ch. 1: 'Suffering and a Crisis of Faith', p. 1
“You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.”
Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World
Source: Dead to the World
Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook
Anna Wulf, in "Free Women: 2"<!-- 255 -->
Source: The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: It seems to me like this. It's not a terrible thing — I mean, it may be terrible, but it's not damaging, it's not poisoning, to do without something one really wants. It's not bad to say: My work is not what I really want, I'm capable of doing something bigger. Or I'm a person who needs love, and I'm doing without it. What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
