Helen Fisher Quotes

Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.

When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way of getting you out of bed in the morning and keeping you going.

We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.

What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.

You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.

I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him.

He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.

Now you know," I said lightly, and shrugged. "No one's ever loved anyone as much as I love you.

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.

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

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.

Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love.

I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.