Portia de Rossi Quotes

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

People who can't kiss had everything given to them.

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

I've definitely been obsessed with a couple of girls. They didn't work out.

'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.

In my twenties, I wrote a lot of romantic stories in which I always lost the girl.

He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.

Teenage years are all about crushes: crushes so deep you wanted to inhabit the other person, be inside their skin, see the world through their eyes.

'Mr. Majnu' is a modern and passionate love and he loves to be around girls, they love him too. But, I'm nothing like that in real life.

'Still Writing Songs About You' - that one hits me every time. For some reason, I really feel that song every time we play it. I just love the sound of it, and I feel like everybody probably has that person that they never fully forget or never can get past.

I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced.

He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Worse still, in defiance of their own best interests and to the destruction of your peace, they loved another. What would half the world's poets and novelists do without this universal tragicomedy?