Top 35 Mike Gayle Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I won’t stop loving you because I can’t stop loving you.”

— Mike Gayle

2. “If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?”

— Mike Gayle

3. “I’m telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone’s love, it’s always nice to hear it.”

— Mike Gayle

4. “Love is so complicated, that is why it is love.”

— Mike Gayle

5. “One day the worlds male population will spontaneously combust because they’ve kept too much stuff in for too long.”

— Mike Gayle

6. “It used to be the family all looking out for one another but it’s not like that anymore. It used to be you at least knew your doctor, but these days you’re lucky to get an appointment, let alone see the same GP twice. It used to be your neighbors kept an eye on you but people like to keep themselves to themselves now. It used to be that you belonged to a community, but really, is there such a thing anymore? Now it’s more like every man for himself.”

— Mike Gayle

7. “I find myself whispering an apology to the person I used to be.”

— Mike Gayle

8. “It’s these small moments that make life worth living. The moments you take for granted. The ones you think will always be in plentiful supply. But if this past year has shown me anything, it’s the need to cherish each and every moment, whether good or bad, whether joyful or painful, as the precious fleeting gifts that they are.”

— Mike Gayle

9. “She was the first woman in my life to convince me to fall in love with her.”

— Mike Gayle

10. “It’s the best feeling in the world knowing there’s someone in your corner. That no matter what and no matter how badly you mess up, they will always be on your side.”

— Mike Gayle

11. “In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you – just when you need to be reminded the most – why you fell in love with someone in the first place.”

— Mike Gayle

12. “In the middle of the night, waiting for daylight feels like forever, a forever where you’re stuck going over every bad thought in your head with a fine-tooth comb.”

— Mike Gayle

13. “It’s funny how life can be sometimes, just when you think you know how everything is, it sneaks out a surprise that really tears the rug right out from beneath your feet.”

— Mike Gayle

14. “In a way I couldn’t believe I’d carried a torch for her this far – I should have used it to set fire to her years ago.”

— Mike Gayle

15. “I learned that if someone tells you to be on the safe side lots of times then after a while they do not need to say it. After a while you just say it to yourself in your head like, ‘I had better not do that, just to be on the safe side.”

— Mike Gayle

16. “I keep quiet and she keeps quiet too, until we use up all the quiet in the room so that finally one of us has to say something.”

— Mike Gayle

17. “When you think about it finding the perfect partner is a bit like a game of pontoon. I mean, you get your cards and you make your decision, do you stick or twist? do you play safe and settle for 19 or do you go all out for 21 even if you might end up bust?”

— Mike Gayle

18. “Details are important when a day is special to you. But the difficult thing is that quite often you do not know a day is special until long after it is over.”

— Mike Gayle

19. “To her to know truly, was to be intimate. To be intimate was to know the person you love as well as you know your own self.”

— Mike Gayle

20. “If you haven’t got your life sorted at forty, no one, not even your own mum, is going to hand you a medal and say well done.”

— Mike Gayle

21. “Aren’t you curious? When did it stop working? Why did it stop working? Did we bring out the worst in each other? Was it just one persons fault or both of us? Aren’t these questions everyone wants to ask when they split up with someone?”

— Mike Gayle

22. “I know he’s right to be worried about us, because I’m worried about us too. I don’t understand how relationships work. I don’t know how they survive. It seems every day something new arrives to threaten your peace of mind.”

— Mike Gayle

23. “She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you’d want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt.”

— Mike Gayle

24. “Sometimes I really feel sorry for Mel – Her life would’ve been so much better if she’d fallen in love with someone normal. Instead she fell in love with me and had been paying for the mistake ever since.”

— Mike Gayle

25. “I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.”

— Mike Gayle

26. “If you wait too long for the right moment to tell somebody the truth, it’s practically the same as lying.”

— Mike Gayle

27. “You see, the key to helping other people out of them loneliness is nothing more difficult than good old-fashioned perseverance. It’s not always easy, me know that, but you’ve got to be willing to keep doors open, to carry on trying even if it doesn’t look like it’s working. You’ve got to refuse to give up on people, even if them giving up on themselves.”

— Mike Gayle

28. “Smiler, this damn tea so weak it nearly a fortnight!”

— Mike Gayle

29. “Good things could happen to not so bad people.”

— Mike Gayle

30. “Because that’s the thing about grief no one ever tells you: it’s greedy. You don’t notice at first because you’re still in shock, and there’s so much to do, from obtaining death certificates to canceling utility contracts, but hour by hour, day by day, it eats up every last scrap of energy you have, leaving you spent and empty.”

— Mike Gayle

31. “That’s the funny thing about life. Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them.”

— Mike Gayle

32. “But it’s like anything, the more time you give it, the better it gets.”

— Mike Gayle

33. “For the rest of the day Hubert couldn’t stop grinning. He grinned in the lift on the way back down to the warehouse. He grinned as he passed Mr Coulthard yelling at the new lads. And he grinned all the more later when Kenneth told him a very odd story about being sent on a wild-goose chase to the fourth floor by a girl from Haberdashery.”

— Mike Gayle

34. “Everything new sounds ridiculous until someone makes it happen.”

— Mike Gayle

35. “After all, it was always easier to meet new people if there were two of you. It gave you confidence and made you feel at ease.”

— Mike Gayle