It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

Heartache and heartbreak reveal many different shades of the blues within one's self.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.