Rumer Godden Quotes

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?

Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

Absence - that common cure of love.

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

Romantic love is painful.

Your first love is your first love. It cannot be analysed, explained, nor forgotten.

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it.