Familiar Quote by Helen Van Slyke

Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists…

— Helen Van Slyke

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

— Helen Van Slyke

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

— Helen Van Slyke

I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their happiness and…

— Helen Van Slyke

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

— Helen Van Slyke

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

— Helen Van Slyke

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

— Helen Van Slyke

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships…

— Helen Van Slyke

Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to leave their mark…

— Helen Van Slyke

Never doubt love ... Never question it when it comes onstage, but be happy for its entrance. And do not weep when it makes…

— Helen Van Slyke

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

— Helen Van Slyke

Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it,…

— Helen Van Slyke