Not Infatuation Quotes

#1. This was not a rebound, this was not infatuation, this was the end of his life as he knew it, and the realization hit that even if she didn't want him, he would never ever find another woman like her.

Alessandra Torre

#2. They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault - it just sees beyond it as well.

Richard Paul Evans

#3. An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.

George Crabbe

#4. In the dance of infatuation, we see others not as they are, but as projections of who we want them to be. And we impose on them all the imaginary criteria we think will fill the void in our hearts.

Neil Strauss

#5. To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways ... (The Rape Of The Swan)
Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.

Archibald MacLeish

#6. Nobody, she felt, understood her
not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie
except her man.

Raquel Cepeda

#7. The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

Charles Baudelaire

#8. Real, sane, mature love - the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school - is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

Walt Whitman

#10. You can't truly love someone if you also love yourself, just as you can't love someone if you are not honest with them and they with you - otherwise it's just infatuation and desire.

Benjamin Stone

#11. The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

Matthew Arnold

#12. What had passed between them had been real and true and lived. Not like the silly infatuation she had felt for [him] when she was 16, or the foolish attraction she'd felt. Theirs had been a true love. Forged and built and earned.

David Liss

#13. The ultimate form is the embodiment of love (Premswaroop)! The love of these (so called) lovers (Romeo-Juliet) does not work there. The Love of God (the Lord) is 'Pure Love'. That which increases or decreases is infatuation [asakti]. There is no increase or decrease in 'Pure Love'.

Dada Bhagwan

#14. For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means?

Milan Kundera

#15. Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

Jodi Picoult

#16. Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

Larry Wall

#17. Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time ...

Margaret Mahy

#18. Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

Philip Zaleski

#19. But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. He hasn't really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he's starting to, a little.

Colleen Chen

#21. How unfortunate is the guy who does not live in the extravagant memory of an infatuated young woman.

Manu Joseph

#22. It's always funny watching something so beautiful not know how beautiful it really is. It's sad even.

Holly Hood

#23. Don't you realize how I adore you? ... But I couldn't steal the life of a girl when I wanted a woman's love. I wanted you to have a choice, not an infatuation.

Elizabeth Hunter

#24. The joy we feel to be together seems worthy of a fairy tale, from the moment our eyes met we felt the crush of love. This is not a passing infatuation, ours is love of truth.

Auliq Ice

#25. Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#26. For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.

William Shakespeare

#27. She was too interested in getting married to waste her time on someone ineligible. Infatuation made for odd behavior, though. And love and marriage did not often coincide where wealth and power were.

Anne Leonard

#28. Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#29. He who is infatuated with 'Man' leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Max Stirner

#30. Love is not blind. Infatuation is blind. Love is all-seeing and still accepting.

Anamika Mishra

#31. When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.

Suzanne Finnamore

#32. You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization.

Sudhir Kakar

#33. Love is not instant. Infatuation is instant. Love is a thing that begins with the most shallow of roots that reach the depths of our souls only after we've given ourselves up to the helplessness of it. And when it's true love, we are truly helpless.

Inglath Cooper

#34. I'm just saying ... I love you. And I can't imagine stopping ...

Rainbow Rowell

#35. This infatuation must be dispelled; it is necessary for me not to admire you. I do not wish to fall in love.

Ariana Franklin

#36. Some people are crazy in love. They are so captivated to where they've lost themselves. Do not be lured in so deep that you lose the essence of who you truly are.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#37. When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J.K. Rowling

#38. You're going to fuck everything up if you act like some crazed guy with an infatuation. This is not the guy she fell in love with. She fell in love with dark mysterious Dank Walker. She fell in love with Death. Be that guy. Stop being this broken, pitiful, obsessed stalker dude.

Abbi Glines

#39. Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#40. I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

Loretta Chase

#41. Real love, true love is not like the shooting star that makes you go, "ooh, aah". Real, true love is like the constancy of the sun that comes up slowly every morning - sometimes too hot; sometimes hidden behind the clouds, but always there. Therefore, often take for granted.

Lucille Anderson

#42. I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.

Isaac Marion

#43. She was not a believer in love at first sight, although she did believe that instant lust (going under the more innocent name of infatuation) occurred frequently.

Stephen King

#44. I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

Kevin Leman

#45. No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

Mignon McLaughlin

#46. A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.

Tamera Mowry

#47. It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity.

Nick Bantock