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Quotes About Infatuation

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
~ Anthony Powell
Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Let Rufus weep, rejoice, stand, sit, or walk, Still he can nothing but of Nævia talk: Let him eat, drink, ask Questions, or dispute, Still he must speak of Nævia, or be mute. He writ to his Father, ending with this Line, I am, my Lovely Nævia, ever thine.
~ Joseph Addison
I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.
~ Erin Morgenstern
E' cominciato dalla mano, che si è innamorata della tua.
~ Erri De Luca
For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.
~ Etgar Keret
She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.
~ Eudora Welty
She felt herself strangling with a great rush of passion. She fell violently, monstrously, in love...
~ Bernard Evslin
Whatever the reason, I never could be bothered with any boy that did not stop my world. But Sam. He stopped it indeed.
~ Beth Seidel levine
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
~ Bette Davis
She was liking this man more and more. She
~ Beverly Jenkins
When I watch movies or TV, I am like, 'Wow that guy is really cute, I really like him,' but I don't really have one person that I would die to go to something with. There are so many hot guys.
~ Sasha Pieterse
I was obsessed with Lil' Bow Wow growing up, and you couldn't see the white of my walls because they were plastered with his photos. This is even more embarrassing: I had a notebook full of facts about Bow Wow and different pictures. I basically made a biography notebook about him and his life when he was, like, 13.
~ Samira Wiley
I sort of fell in love with the idea that we all love things that we're not supposed to, and that, often, that love is also 'tainted.' I wrapped it in sort of a graphic novel theme, and out of that came 'Tainted Love.'
~ Orlando Jones
I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I'd get up on the stool and sing. 'T for Texas, T for Tenessee, T for Thelma, the gal that made a wreck out of me.' I was in love with my babysitter. She was 18. I was six.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
I was a fanatic about wrestling when I was a kid.
~ R-Truth
I wanted to write about love at first sight because I fell in love at first sight.
~ Ol Parker
For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty, transparent fingers. He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. What was her name? Where did she live and what sort of life did she lead? What was her past? He wanted to know what furniture she had in her bedroom, the dresses she wore, the people she knew; even his physical desire for her gave way to a deeper yearning, a boundless, aching curiosity.
~ Gustave Flaubert
His heart was flooded with immense love, and as he gazed on her he could feel his mind growing numb.
~ Gustave Flaubert
She repeated, I have a lover! a lover! delighting at the idea as if a second puberty had come to her.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Šta meni ostaje da radim na svetu? Drugi se upinju iz petnih žila da bi došli do bogatstva, slave, vlasti! A ja, ja nemam nikakvog položaja, Vi ste jedino moje zanimanje, svo moje bogatstvo, cilj, centar mog života, mojih misli... Ne mogu više da živim bez Vas, kao što ne mogu bez nebeskog vazduha!
~ Gustave Flaubert
Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in one's mind, only one desire in the heart, and only one name on the lips--a name which comes up continually, rising, like the water in a spring, from the depths of the soul to the lips, a name which one repeats over and over again, which one whispers ceaselessly, everywhere, like a prayer.
~ Guy de Maupassant
She was pretty and, even more, she was smart, and she had a divine figure according to all accounts. He fell in love with her, as a man always falls in love with any attractive woman whom he sees a lot of.
~ Guy de Maupassant