Helen Rowland Quotes

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

I just want to be in a relationship.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

I fall in love very easily.

I think women love a passionate love story.

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

All is fair in love and songwriting.

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

There is nothing you can control about love.

Love and friendship exclude each other.