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Love Quote by Andrea Bocelli

"Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better"

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Bocelli’s line has the plainspoken ache of someone who’s spent a career turning private feeling into public sound. The grammar is slightly off-kilter - “went in love,” “I suffered” - and that’s part of the honesty. It reads like a translation of memory more than a polished confessional, which keeps it from sounding strategic or self-mythologizing. He’s not selling heartbreak as an aesthetic; he’s admitting the teenage kind that feels humiliating, repetitive, and oddly inevitable.

The key move is the quick insistence: “And, no, I suffered.” That “no” answers an unspoken suspicion that early crushes are cute, harmless, a rite of passage you can laugh off. He refuses the soft-focus version. Falling for friends at school is especially brutal because it takes place inside a closed ecosystem: you can’t really escape the cafeteria, the classroom, the social hierarchy that keeps reminding you who is looking at whom. The suffering isn’t only romantic; it’s social, daily, inescapable.

“Only later, things went better” lands like a withheld melody resolving late. It’s not triumph; it’s survival with a modest payoff. For a musician known for soaring emotional clarity, the restraint is telling: he doesn’t claim he outgrew longing, just that time widened the world enough for longing to have somewhere to go. The subtext is career-sized: pain is real, but it isn’t destiny.

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Bocelli, Andrea. (n.d.). Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/often-i-went-in-love-with-some-friends-in-school-37469/

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Bocelli, Andrea. "Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/often-i-went-in-love-with-some-friends-in-school-37469/.

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"Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/often-i-went-in-love-with-some-friends-in-school-37469/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Andrea Bocelli (born September 22, 1958) is a Musician from Italy.

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