Gene Wilder Quotes

I was class VI or VII when I had a crush on a girl, and I thought this is the girl I'd marry. When you're so young, you are crestfallen when things don't turn out your way and think it's the end of the world.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.

I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a whole year, and I finally I got to be with her, and the interest vanished. I'm a terrible person. I was 17, and she was in my class.

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen

Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her that I lived in a dream. In the dream my heart seemed to be ready to burst, for it seemed that the whole world was inside it swelling to get out and be the world. But that summer came to an end. Time passed and nothing happened that we had felt so certain at one time would happen.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

Everybody has their first love. I think it goes back to being in love with the idea of being in love. Everybody wants love, and your first love is special. You've never experienced anything like that. It's good to have a fond memory of it.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.

But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.

Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

The first love is the difficult love.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.