Helen Fisher Quotes

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.

When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap.

I was adored once too.

A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

I'm afraid love may not exist the way I want it to.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

I'm not gone remix a record I don't got no love for.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

With 'Futurama,' I wanted to do unrequited love, and David Cohen agreed, and although our original plan was never to have Fry and Leela get together, we finally just said, 'You can only string the fans along so far.'

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.

You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

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.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.