“Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Variant: Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
"Fidelity"
Begin to Hope (2006)
Context: I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart...
“Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Variant: Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
Barrett Brown (1981) American journalist, essayist and satirist
True/Slant, "Farewell, and a confession" http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/07/29/farewell-and-a-confession/, 29 July 2010.
“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Never fall in love?"
"Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
