John Clare Quotes

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.

Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

I now believe in love at first sight. Especially after it's happened to me.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once.

At long last love has arrived, and I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you.

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart.

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

is love at first sight truly possible?

If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

I took one look at you That's all I meant to do And my heart stood still.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.