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Quotes About Infatuation

My celebrity crush is Princess Jasmine.
~ Spencer Matthews
I crush on a different person everyday, but my longest lasting celebrity crush would have to be Paula Brancati.
~ Raymond Ablack
I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.
~ Dorothy Malone
When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard.
~ Roger Ailes
Everyone, mostly in his or her school or college days, falls for someone unachievable, whom they can't express their feelings to. It happened with me as well.
~ Uday Chopra
I've got a terrible crush on someone and last week mum was coaching me - it was a real masterclass - on how to very casually say hello to him. I had to talk to her hand. Tears were pouring down our faces.
~ Finty Williams
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.
~ Jenny Han
Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!
~ Ellie Goulding
Phillip Schofield has always been my primary crush. Sure, I danced in front of the telly when Shakin' Stevens was on Top of the Pops, but that was because my rudimentary grasp of how telly works made this five-year-old think she could be seen by him. So that was less love, more showing off.
~ Sarah Millican
The search for the sources of his megalomania and a description of his personality seem useful primarily as a warning against future infatuations with leaders promising national salvation through emotionally appealing but rationally simplistic nostrums
~ Robert Dallek
Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
She thought of the day that Matthew had asked her out for the very first time and remembered walking home from school, her insides on fire with excitement and pride. She remembered Sarah Shadlock giggling, leaning against him in a pub in Bath, and Matthew frowning slightly and pulling away. She thought of Strike and Elin . . . what have they got to do with anything?
~ Robert Galbraith
I know well enough how people in love drag the name of the loved one into every conversation, simply to utter that magical word, to savor it on the tongue.
~ Robertson Davies
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me.
~ Roland Barthes
I invoke the other's protection, the other's return: let the other appear, take me away, like a mother who comes looking for her child, from this worldly brilliance, from this social infatuation, let the other restore to me the religious intimacy, the gravity of the lover's world. (X once told me that love had protected him against worldliness: coteries, ambitions, advancements, interferences, alliances, secessions, roles, powers: love had made him into a social catastrophe, to his delight.)
~ Roland Barthes
All I know is that I'm in love with you, he said, almost angrily. That the sight of you, the scent of you, the sound of your voice - I can't help myself, I can't stop it, I can't think of anything else. You've made me completely useless.
~ Lee Nichols
I'd long thought of her as an unfading Penelope, but that was the lazy eye of infatuation. In truth she'd aged more than the decade elapsed since Alec disappeared. Yet somehow the years revealed her strength. Like a willow she turned all weathers to advantage.
~ Leif Enger
Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It's not Kartik's longing that hurts. It's my own. It's knowing that I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.
~ Libba Bray
They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.
~ Libba Bray
She looked up at him and loved what she saw.
~ Linda Lee Chaikin
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
~ Bryant Gumbel
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.
~ Aldous Huxley
He loved her infinitely, and for that reason was able to love everything in the world as much as he loved her.
~ Aldous Huxley