# Quotes about falling in love - Quotes: 57 - Authors: 51 - Broader topic: [Quotes about love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.json ## Quotes > The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. [Victor Hugo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo.md) · [Les Miserables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/the-first-symptom.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > In the moment I saw you I lost my heart, and a fatal frenzy swept me away. [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md) · [The Eclogues](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-eclogues.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-eclogues/in-the-moment.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring—once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale and caresses tiresome... except, of course, to those who share the kisses, who give and take the caresses while every sound and color of the world seems to deepen and brighten around them. As with any other strong drug, true first love is really only interesting to those who have become its prisoners. [Stephen King](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king.md) · [Wizard and Glass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/wizard-and-glass.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/wizard-and-glass/true-love-like.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > I wish we could spend every day together. I don't want to keep waking up without him. This must be what it feels like to fall in love without saying the word. The way he stares at me says he's thinking the same. I don't know why we were connected this way, but I like to believe there's a reason for it. Maybe we're part of some cosmic story, stretching throughout the universe. I just hope it has a good ending. [Dustin Thao](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dustin-thao.md) · [You've Found Oliver](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dustin-thao/youve-found-oliver.md) · p. 200 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dustin-thao/youve-found-oliver/i-wish-we-could.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he’d gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between. [Lev Grossman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman.md) · [The Magicians](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians.md) · p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lev-grossman/the-magicians/his-crush-went.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > That morning, she was wearing an orange cotton dress; she looked like a burning sunset, and Chika knew immediately that his story would end with her, that he would drown in her large liquid eyes and it would be the perfect way to go. [Akwaeke Emezi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi.md) · [The Death of Vivek Oji](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi/the-death-of-vivek-oji.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi/the-death-of-vivek-oji/that-morning-she.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > He'd fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams. [Silvia Moreno-Garcia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/silvia-moreno-garcia.md) · [Gods of Jade and Shadow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/silvia-moreno-garcia/gods-of-jade-and-shadow.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/silvia-moreno-garcia/gods-of-jade-and-shadow/hed-fallen-in-love.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > How can it strike so suddenly? Without warning, without preparation? Should it not grow on you, taking its time, so that when the moment comes when you think 'I love', you know or at least you imagine you know what it is you love? How can it be that a set of the shoulders, the rhythm of a stride, the shadow of a strand of hair falling on a forehead can cause the tides of the heart to ebb and to flow? [Ahdaf Soueif](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ahdaf-soueif.md) · [The Map of Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ahdaf-soueif/the-map-of-love.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ahdaf-soueif/the-map-of-love/how-can-it-strike.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved — turned this way and that, examined, considered. And so they sit, and touch, and talk, and breathe, and so they string their moments into a glorious chain, and throw it round each other's necks, garland each other with it. Invisible to all others, it shines for them, a beacon across a crowded room, across an ocean, across time. [Ahdaf Soueif](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ahdaf-soueif.md) · [The Map of Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ahdaf-soueif/the-map-of-love.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ahdaf-soueif/the-map-of-love/it-is-that.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > I am fat with love! Husky with ardor! Morbidly obese with devotion! A happy, busy bumblebee of marital enthusiasm. I positively hum around him, fussing and fixing. I have become a strange thing. I have become a wife. I find myself steering the ship of conversations—bulkily, unnaturally—just so I can say his name aloud. I have become a wife, I have become a bore, I have been asked to forfeit my Independent Young Feminist card. I don’t care. [Gillian Flynn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gillian-flynn.md) · [Gone Girl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gillian-flynn/gone-girl.md) · p. 38 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gillian-flynn/gone-girl/i-am-fat.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. It's just a natural feeling. You're not the person who discovered that feeling, so don't go trying to patent it, okay? [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [Kafka on the Shore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/kafka-on-the-shore/anyone-who-falls.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > One day I was thinking about a conversation I’d had with my sister Maggie about why she married her husband, John. She was adamant it was love at first sight, and even though they were only fourteen when they met, they knew they’d end up spending the rest of their lives together. I’m a scientist, so naturally I’m skeptical about that kind of thing, but it did get me thinking—what if she was right? What if love at first sight actually exists? [John Marrs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs.md) · [The One](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs/the-one.md) · p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-marrs/the-one/one-day-i-was.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > When we fell in love, it was like discovering a new world. It was one that I had hoped was possible but had never been to before. [Ann Druyan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-druyan.md) · [Cosmos: Possible Worlds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-druyan/cosmos-possible-worlds.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-druyan/cosmos-possible-worlds/when-we-fell.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > Reader, you may ask this question; in fact, you must ask this question: Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big-eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful human princess named Pea? > > The answer is... yes. Of course, it's ridiculous. > > Love is ridiculous. [Kate DiCamillo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-dicamillo.md) · [The Tale of Despereaux](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-dicamillo/the-tale-of-despereaux.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-dicamillo/the-tale-of-despereaux/reader-you-may.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > “Is this being in love?” he suddenly wondered? It was nothing like the ballads he had heard sung—this was more irritating than uplifting. [Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md) · [The Dragonbone Chair](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair.md) · p. 500 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/is-this-being.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism. [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-gilbert.md) · [Eat Pray Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-gilbert/eat-pray-love.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-gilbert/eat-pray-love/i-have-always.md) Topics: [optimism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/optimism.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away. [Wendelin Van Draanen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen.md) · [Flipped](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wendelin-van-draanen/flipped/my-heart-stopped.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > "Shadowhunters. They get in your blood, under your skin. I've been with vampires, werewolves, faeries, warlocks like me-- and humans, so many fragile humans. But I always told myself I wouldn't give my heart to a Shadowhunter. I've so nearly loved them, been charmed by them-- generations of them, sometimes: Edmund and Will and James and Lucie... the ones I saved and the ones I couldn't. And Clary, too, I loved, for I watched her grow up. But I've never been in love with a Shadowhunter, not until Alec. For they have the blood of angels in them, and the love of angels is a high and holy thing." [Cassandra Clare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare.md) · [City of Heavenly Fire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-heavenly-fire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-heavenly-fire/shadowhunters-they-get.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > "You disappear so completely into your head sometimes. I wish I could follow you." > > You do. You live in my head all the time. [Cassandra Clare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare.md) · [City of Ashes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes/you-disappear-so-completely.md) Topics: [longing](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/longing.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > "Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'" [Kate Chopin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-chopin.md) · [The Awakening](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-chopin/the-awakening.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-chopin/the-awakening/do-you-suppose.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > It took me a long time but I finally figured it out: when it comes to men that are romantically interested in you, it's really simple: just ignore everything they say, and only pay attention to what they do. It's that simple. It's that easy. [Randy Pausch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch.md) · [The Last Lecture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture/it-took-me-a-long.md) Topics: [taking action](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/taking-action.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called 'success' with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings. [Stefan Zweig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig.md) · [Beware of Pity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/only-a-numskull.md) Topics: [stupidity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > "And so the lion fell in love with the lamb..." he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. > > "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. > > "What a sick, masochistic lion." [Stephenie Meyer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer.md) · [Twilight](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/twilight.md) · p. 274 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephenie-meyer/twilight/and-so-the.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > In the early stages of many so called romantic relationships, roleplaying is quite common in order to attract and keep whoever is perceived by the ego as the one who is going to “make me happy, make me feel special, and fulfill all my needs.” ....those roles cannot be sustained indefinitely, especially once you start living together. [Eckhart Tolle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle.md) · [A New Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth/in-the-early.md) Topics: [ego](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ego.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases and intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever. p. 56 [Eckhart Tolle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle.md) · [A New Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth/what-is-commonly.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md), [addiction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/addiction-2.md) > Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love? [Orhan Pamuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk.md) · [My Name Is Red](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red.md) · p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orhan-pamuk/my-name-is-red/tell-me-then.md) Topics: [stupidity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/stupidity.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible. [Ken MacLeod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-macleod.md) · [Learning The World](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-macleod/learning-the-world.md) · p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ken-macleod/learning-the-world/falling-in-love.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > What was this hold she had upon me? Was I bewitched, that my mind refused to function sanely, and that judgment and reason were dethroned by some mad sentiment which I steadfastly refused to believe was love? I had never been in love. I was not in love now—the very thought was preposterous. [Edgar Rice Burroughs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-rice-burroughs.md) · [The People That Time Forgot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-rice-burroughs/the-people-that-time-forgot.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-rice-burroughs/the-people-that-time-forgot/what-was-this.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > Love, ah Love, when your slipknot's drawn, > > One can but say, "Farewell, good sense." [Marianne Moore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore.md) · [The Poems of Marianne Moore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore.md) · p. 367 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marianne-moore/the-poems-of-marianne-moore/love-ah-love.md) Topics: [reason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reason.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds (I) [Lawrence Durrell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-durrell.md) · [Mountolive](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-durrell/mountolive.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lawrence-durrell/mountolive/lovers-can-find.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments [Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/the-brightest-attractions.md) Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > Being in love we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said” [Gregory David Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts.md) · [Shantaram](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram/being-in-love.md) Topics: [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. [Nick Hornby](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby.md) · [Fever Pitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/fever-pitch.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/fever-pitch/i-fell-in-love.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md), [sport](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sport.md) > He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship… [Mary Renault](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault.md) · [The Charioteer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-charioteer.md) · p. 104 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-renault/the-charioteer/he-sees-himself.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. [Charlotte Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte.md) · [Villette](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/villette.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/villette/there-is-in-lovers.md) Topics: [selfishness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/selfishness.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > How did you even know if you loved another person? Was it a hunch, like a good smell that you couldn’t identify for sure, or did a time come when you had evidence? Was it like walking through a house and once you’d crossed a certain threshold, that was love and you could never turn back? Maybe you’d go into other rooms, you’d fight or even breakup, but you’d always be on the other side of love, after and not before it. My interest in couples felt anthropological - even liking Cross, even wanting to hear from Martha that she could imagine me dating him, I myself could not imagine us together... When I through of Sin - Jun and Clara - and I did so often- what was hardest to wrap my head around was how they’d been a couple while living in the same room. How had they known when to fool around and when to just sit at their desks doing homework? Hadn’t it been either too intense, too tiring to always be around the person you wanted to impress, or else too familiar? Maybe in such close quarters you gave up hope of impressing them and sat there picking your earwax and not caring if you looked cute. But didn’t you lose something there, too? If that was what people meant by intimacy, it didn’t hold much appeal for me- it seemed like you’d be fighting each other for oxygen. [Curtis Sittenfeld](https://www.leafyquotes.com/curtis-sittenfeld.md) · [Prep](https://www.leafyquotes.com/curtis-sittenfeld/prep.md) · p. 239 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/curtis-sittenfeld/prep/how-did-you.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > He knew of course that there was such a thing as love, and that if you happen to come across it, as most people seem to do, it is not a thing that you can avoid, or that you should want to avoid. But you cannot go out and find it, because it is not that sort of creature. The phrase “to fall in love,” he realized, is a singularly apt one; it is something you blunder into, like a pothole. Very like a pothole. [Tom Holt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt.md) · [Expecting Someone Taller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller.md) · p. 210 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/he-knew-of-course.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > Everything pales into insignificance compared to our passionate attachment. In this sense, falling in love is like the blinding light that hit Saul/Paul on the road to Damascus: a kind of religious suspension of the Ethical, to use Kerkegaard's terms. [Slavoj Žižek](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek.md) · [The Sublime Object of Ideology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology.md) · p. 33 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology/everything-pales-into.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > The heath and changes of weather were quite blotted out from their eyes for the present. They were enclosed in a sort of luminous mist, which hid from them surroundings of any inharmonious colour, and gave to all things the character of light. When it rained they were charmed, because they could remain indoors together all day with such a show of reason; when it was fine they were charmed, because they could sit together on the hills. They were like those double stars which revolve round and round each other, and from a distance appear to be one. [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md) · [The Return of the Native](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/the-return-of-the-native.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/the-return-of-the-native/the-heath-and.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > We love being in love, that's the truth on't. [William Makepeace Thackeray](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray.md) · [The History of Henry Esmond](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray/the-history-of-henry-esmond.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray/the-history-of-henry-esmond/we-love-being.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > The lesson was not interrupted, but the girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later. [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez.md) · [Love in the Time of Cholera](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera.md) · p. 80 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/the-lesson-was.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez.md) · [Love in the Time of Cholera](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera.md) · p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/to-him-she.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > I had no choice but to hear you. > > You stated your case, time and again. > > I thought about it. > > You treat me like I'm a princess. > > I'm not used to liking that. > > You ask how my day was.You've already won me over > > In spite of me. > > And don't be alarmed if I fall > > Head over feet. > > And don't be surprised if I love you > > For all that you are. > > I couldn't help it, > > It's all your fault. [Alanis Morissette](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alanis-morissette.md) · [Jagged Little Pill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alanis-morissette/jagged-little-pill.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alanis-morissette/jagged-little-pill/i-had-no-choice.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > When love strikes the successful middle-aged they bring a weight of personality and a resolution to it that makes the romances of the young seem timid and bungling. They are not troubled by doubt; they know what they want and they go after it. [Robertson Davies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies.md) · [The Deptford Trilogy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies/the-deptford-trilogy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robertson-davies/the-deptford-trilogy/when-love-strikes.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > ""You'll always be powerless to this girl. You'll never be in charge. There's something there," George told me, "that makes you crazy and always will. If you don't cut the connection for good, in the end that something will destroy you. You're no longer merely answering natural need with her. This is the pathology in its purest form. Look," he told me, "see it as a critic, see it from a professional point of view. You violated the law of aesthetic distance. You sentimentalized the aesthetic experience with this girl — you personalized it, you sentimentalized it, and you lost the sense of separation essential to your enjoyment. Do you know when that happened? … I'm not against it because it's disgusting. I'm against it because it's falling in love. The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open." [Philip Roth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth.md) · [The Dying Animal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/the-dying-animal.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/the-dying-animal/youll-always-be-powerless.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md), [obsession](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/obsession.md) > We came back to the chairs now and then and sang hesitant, clever, nervous, gentle dithyrambs about how we were beginning to feel towards one another. Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them — at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them. We whipped our strangeness and newness into a froth that resembled love, and we dared not play too long with it, talk too much of it, or it would flatten and fizzle away. So we moved back and forth from chairs to water, from talk to silence, and considering my unshakable edginess with Brenda, and the high walls of ego that rose, buttresses and all, between her and her knowledge of herself, we managed pretty well. [Philip Roth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth.md) · [Goodbye, Columbus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/goodbye-columbus.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/goodbye-columbus/we-came-back.md) Topics: [language](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/language.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state — admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological — in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that "I" and "you" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact. [Sigmund Freud](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigmund-freud.md) · [Civilization and its Discontents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigmund-freud/civilization-and-its-discontents.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sigmund-freud/civilization-and-its-discontents/towards-the-outside.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. [James Joyce](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce.md) · [Dubliners](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/dubliners.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-joyce/dubliners/i-had-never.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can. [J.D. Salinger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger.md) · [The Catcher in the Rye](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye/thats-the-thing.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > "The Poet had, who had made a show of attaching no importance to this literary game (though it gnawed at his heart that he himself had not written such beautiful letters, provoking replies even more beautiful), and having no one with whom to fall in love, had fallen in love with the letters themselves — which, as Niketas remarked with a smile — was not surprising, since in youth we are prone to fall in love with love. [Umberto Eco](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco.md) · [Baudolino](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco/baudolino.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/umberto-eco/baudolino/the-poet-had.md) Topics: [youth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > "Falling in love with Vina, I knew I was stepping out of my league. Nevertheless, I took the step and did not fall on my face. This is human heroism. Of this, as of little else, I am proud. Male love is a kind of self-assessment. We allow ourselves to love only those women whom we feel we have a right to pay court, to whom we dare aspire." [Salman Rushdie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie.md) · [The Ground Beneath Her Feet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie/the-ground-beneath-her-feet.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/salman-rushdie/the-ground-beneath-her-feet/falling-in-love.md) Topics: [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > But look — he flicks his hand to the back of his neck. For such gesture one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime. [Virginia Woolf](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf.md) · [The Waves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/the-waves.md) · p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/the-waves/but-look-he-flicks.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md) · [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/to-be-in-love.md) Topics: [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding. [David Sedaris](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris.md) · [Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim.md) · p. 183 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-sedaris/dress-your-family-in-corduroy-and-denim/if-finding-an-apartment.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/home.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > ‘I suppose a woman is never in love with any one she has always known— ever since she can remember; as a man often is. It is always some new fellow who strikes a girl.’ [George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md) · [Middlemarch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/middlemarch.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/middlemarch/i-suppose-a-woman.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, — when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. [George Eliot](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot.md) · [The Mill on the Floss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/the-mill-on-the-floss.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-eliot/the-mill-on-the-floss/she-and-stephen.md) Topics: [youth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth.md), [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md) > As the idolater gives what he loves best to the shrine of the object of his worship, so the lover is not content to see perfection in his mistress, he must be ever trying to add to her adornment. She does not need it for his pleasure, it is he who needs the pleasure of giving, it is a fresh homage to be rendered to her, a fresh pleasure in the joy of beholding her. Everything of beauty seems to find its place only as an accessory to the supreme beauty. It is both touching and amusing to see Emile eager to teach Sophy everything he knows, without asking whether she wants to learn it or whether it is suitable for her. [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/as-the-idolater.md) Topics: [falling in love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/falling-in-love.md), [gifts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gifts.md)