Quotes About Self Infatuation

#1. Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

Renata Adler

#2. Was that pity? I think it was. No wonder, I even pity myself. Will the pity make her love me? Make her take me home with her and look after me like the plant? Fucking bastard smug plant.

Rhona Cameron

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

Suzanne Finnamore

#4. Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart.

Joseph R. Bartlett

#5. 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

#6. Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.

Joan Bauer

#7. You can't tell such stories about romantic infatuation from the point of view of the object of the infatuation without losing the flavor of the emotion. They would just become 'who is that creep hanging around outside the balcony' stories.

Margaret Atwood

#8. I HAVE TO MEET HIM.
I don't think I can keep this up. I don't care if it ruins everything. I'm this close to making out with my laptop screen.

Becky Albertalli

#9. You make me feel like I am everywhere when I am right here, completely still with you.

Crystal Woods

#10. Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

Mahavira

#11. If love is a form of substance abuse, I hope to die high.

Crystal Woods

#12. 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

#13. She smelled like fresh dough rising.

Jodi Picoult

#14. As long as parmanus (subatomic particles) match, there is oneness, and then it turns into revenge (vengeance). Wherever there is infatuation, there will indeed be revenge there.

Dada Bhagwan

#15. Once the entrancement (Infatuation; Deluded state), in material objects, is gone; the loss in spirituality stops!

Dada Bhagwan

#16. Was I on something? Yes, love. The strongest drug there is.

Crystal Woods

#17. Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Jim Morrison

#18. Alcohol, for those addicted to it, is a kind of infatuation. It ends up displacing other relationships, becoming inseparable from your sense of who you are until a better, longer life no longer seems possible.

Louis Theroux

#19. O woman, thou art my imperfection!

Pawan Mishra

#20. 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

#21. So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#22. 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

#23. What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me?

Olivia Parker

#24. Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

George Eliot

#25. I swooned the first time I saw Charlo. I actually did. I didn't faint or fall on the floor but my legs went rubbery on me and I giggled. I suddenly knew that I had lungs because they were empty and collapsing.

Roddy Doyle

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

William Shakespeare

#27. I wanted to badly to be vulnerable over a burger, beer, and bags of free books we find on some stranger's porch. You wanted badly to be touched some thousand miles away and never found the time to write me back.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. You might never comprehend my madness. But it stands behind my undying love for you. You're the object of my everything. I'm sorry I've been stupid lately.

Crystal Woods

#32. [A]ll these years, I had been telling myself that my feelings for you were a juvenile infatuation; a dream inspired by my secret hope that somewhere there could be a creature who could love me.

Kellyn Roth

#33. every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i can have you next to me
and how long i can get you to stay.

AVA.

#34. Maybe love was some combination of friendship and infatuation. A deeply felt affection accompanied by a certain sort of awe. And by gratitude. And by a desire for a lifetime of togetherness.

Chinelo Okparanta

#35. That old black magic has me in its spell.

Johnny Mercer

#36. I just love cars; I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.

Birdman

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

Anamika Mishra

#38. Finn lowers his voice to a confidential whisper. 'Arabella was
my first literary infatuation. I had a mad crush on her.

Jessica Spotswood

#39. He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing

Chang-rae Lee

#40. But I could I tell her so in a way that would suggest the distinctive nature of my attraction? Words like "love" or "devotion" or "infatuation" we're exhausted by the weight of successive love stories, but the layers imposed on them through the uses of others.

Alain De Botton

#41. Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

George Eliot

#42. The great thing about true best friends is that when you go MIA for a few months, they inquire but they don't press. Best friends know the power of infatuation but also how quickly it dissipates. You just have to wait it out. And then afterward, tease them about it for decades.

Mindy Kaling

#43. Infatuation. First Love. Lust.
My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals.

Jeanette Winterson

#44. Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

Don McLean

#45. Infatuation is when you find somebody who is absolutely perfect. Love is when you realise that they aren't and it doesn't matter.

Sweetdreamer33

#46. Infatuation -You easily back off.
Love -You silently care, no matter what..!!

Akansh Malik