Love, Romance and
You Know What!

Falling in Love

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The first time I fell absolutely, violently, passionately in love … my senses were so heightened that one day we were walking through the park and I swear, I actually heard a leaf drop to the ground.
Pat Lovell
I know I am falling in love because I think of you and I turn hollow inside, and the world kind of veers … like it goes a little bit sideways for an instant.
John D MacDonald
Falling in love with love is falling for make-believe.
Lorenz Hart - Song
Romantic love 'happens'; it is not brought about; one falls in love. The person is obsessed with the loved one and is unable to concentrate on anything else. The person loses all desire to remain independent, and instead desires to merge and subsume … into the other.
Margaret Horton
You've been in love; you know what it's like. It's a sense of delight, not just in the person you love, but in all people, in yourself, in life. Suddenly you see beauty, excitement everywhere. You're not afraid to express your love: passionately, gently, in words, or in silence. And you feel strong, generous, fully alive.
George Weinberg
... when I look on you a moment, then can I speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over …
Sappho
Liza: Wot's it feel like, bein' in love, Kytie?
Katie: Ow, it's prime, Liza. It's like 'avin 'ot treacle runnin' daown yer back.
Caption to late Victorian Punch cartoon
One inevitable consequence of falling deeply in love is the realization that no one has yet adequately described the torment and ecstasy of your condition - and the knowledge that you will try and fail to do so.
William Jay Smith
Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools, favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
Marguerite De Valois
Everyone, naturally, wants love, but the real thing, when it arrives, is cruel, disconcerting, and frightening. One's partner refuses merely to be an object, a thing, an impersonal presence, and demands one's precious time, careful reflection, and emotional entanglement.
Michael Noval
I can see from your utter misery, from your eagerness to misunderstand each other, and from your thoroughly bad temper, that this is the real thing.
Peter Ustinov
Love is like fever, it comes and goes without
the will having any part in the process.
Henry Beyle Stendahl
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
Geoffrey Chaucer
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
Being in love is the gross exaggeration of the difference
between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
Love is … not a fact in nature of which we become aware,
but rather a creation of the human imagination.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H L Mencken
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
An infatuated young man was sending his girl friend a cable which read: "Ozzy loves his Woozy Woozy Woozy." "You can have another "Woozy" without it costing any more," said the desk clerk. "No, thanks," replied the young man. "I think that would sound rather silly."
Source unknown
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light
so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalier
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Brendan Francis
As soon as you cannot keep anything from a woman, you love her.
Paul Geraldy
You were young-but that is scarcely to your credit
Pretty - as one expects the young to be.
And you were very much in love with me.
And half I lured it on, and half I fled it,
Till honour turned its foolish face on mine
Taking for allies music and good wine -
And told me what I ought to say: I said it.
Gerald Gould - Monogamy
One doesn't fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Karl Menninger
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde - A Woman of No Importance
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations and yet which fails so regularly as love.
Erich Fromm
Falling in love is something you forget, like pain.
Nina Bawden - The Grain of Truth
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Jorge Luis Borges - Other Inquisitions
When a man's in love he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on top of it with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws about Thou Shalt or Thou Shalt Not.
W Somerset Maugham - Lady Frederick

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