quotes about Infatuation
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love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.
-- Ann HoodSource : Ann Hood (2013). “The Obituary Writer: A Novel”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
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Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!
-- Anthony Marais -
Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.
-- Celia FremlinSource : Celia Fremlin (2017). “Uncle Paul”, p.172, Courier Dover Publications
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I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.
-- Craig Thompson -
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Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.
-- Don McLean -
Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
-- Eric Allin Cornell -
An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.
-- George Crabbe -
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
-- George Eliot -
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
-- Jim Morrison -
Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.
-- Joan Bauer -
Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real
-- Jodi Picoult -
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The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.
-- John Bartholomew Gough -
I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.
-- Loretta ChaseSource : Loretta Chase (2004). “Miss Wonderful”, p.249, Penguin
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Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.
-- Mary Roberts RinehartSource : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “A Poor Wise Man”, p.265, Sheba Blake Publishing
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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 -
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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 -
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 -
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.
-- Sophie Jordan -
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You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time.
-- Teresa Lo