Quotes About First Sight Love

“Love at first sight is not complicated. In our dreams we build a woman, we give her life from our own life, and then we have to wait. Through trial and error we try to find that nameless ghost that's haunting our most lonely of nights. And I felt as if I had found what I was looking for. Finally, my ghost had a name and a face.”

— Cristian Mihai

“While I don't believe in love at first sight, because I think it takes more work than that, I do believe that one soul can speak to another and find an inexplicably deep connection over a short period of time, unimaginably short, and know that it will never forget that soul, that moment, or the light it emits forever.”

— Katherine Reay

“How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see?”

— Melinda Cross

“Falling in love is not a spur of the moment thing. There wasn't love at first sight as I always believed there to be. It crept and overpowered me. Once I was in its power, it was the most amazing feeling in the world.”

— Eveli Acosta

“I'm not going to say it was love at first sight. No, it was more like oh, hell-yes-please, I'll have that. With a helping of right-the-fuck-now on the side.”

— Kristen Callihan

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I doubt your ex's murder is one of them.”

— Stephanie Bond

“I believe in love at first sight so that I might be seen.”

— David Gilbert

“This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected
in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.”

— Thomas Mann

“It may not have been love at first sight, but when i truely saw you, i know i could never look away.”

— Matt Trevitz

“He sighed deeply: to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see, no pretensions to beauty or even good looks, was something he had not expected. But falling in love, he had always understood, was unpredictable, and, as far as he was concerned, irrevocable That they hadn't exchanged a word, nor spoken, made no difference. He, heart whole until that minute, and with no intention of marrying until it suited him, had lost that same heart.”

— Betty Neels

“Tell me again was it love at first sight
When I walked by and you caught my eye
Didn't you know love could shine this bright?
Well, smile because you're the deer in the headlights.”

— Owl City

“It was love at first sight. It was 'Oh my God he's so cute at first sight'. - Eleanor ( Eleanor and Park )”

— Rainbow Rowell

“I take it you don't believe in love at first sight." "Does anyone over the age of thirteen? Do you?" "I don't, no," Darcy said. "But I don't rule out for others what I haven't experienced firsthand.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“It was like I was in love with her, even though I didn't know her. Kind of like love before first sight.”

— Kami Garcia

“From her he had learned two fundamental things about love: first, that unlike what the romantics so pompously argued, love was more a gradual course than a sudden blossoming at first sight, and second, that he was capable of loving.”

— Elif Shafak

“Then he walked in, the Great Mystery Man, now known as Cabe "Hawk" Delgado.
I'd fallen in love with him at first sight. No joke. He was hot but it wasn't lust. It was love.
Okay, it was part lust but it was mostly love.”

— Kristen Ashley

“Dentistry is a precondition to love at first sight. When your eyes meet she beams with happiness, but when you smile back she shows her true reflexes.”

— Bauvard

“I believe that we earn what we reap. I believe in good sex. I believe in instant attraction ... I also believe in love at first sight. And I believe that likes attract likes. I believe that we know when the right person comes along. That love doesn't need to sought and found. It'll find you when it finds you.”

— J.C. Reed

“I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle's house, had our meals sent up, and didn't emerge for several days. This is absolutely untrue. I would never behave like that as a guest in someone's home. Carlos and I went to my beach house.”

— Martha Graham

“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”

— Herman Melville

“See what I mean? I think it's a generational thing." She turned to him, and a faint smile played at the corners of her mouth. "My mother's parents were in love. They met at a concert. My grandfather saw my grandmother across the sea of people and bam-love at first sight. He bought a rose from a vendor, walked right up to her, and asked her out. From that day forward, he brought her a rose every”

— Katie Graykowski

“I don't think I've had love at first sight. But, I've definitely had moments where I've seen a person, and I'm like, 'Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.'”

— Josh Hutcherson

“I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.”

— John Perry Barlow

“But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight only that will melt and humble the hearts of men, wean them from the world, draw them to God, and effectually change them. A sight of the awful greatness of God may overpower men's strength, and be more than they can endure; but if the moral beauty of God be hid, the enmity of the heart will remain in its full strength. No love will be enkindled; the will, instead of being effectually gained, will remain inflexible. But the first glimpse of the moral and spiritual glory of God shining into the heart produces all these effects as it were with omnipotent power, which nothing can withstand.”

— Jonathan Edwards

“Love at first sight is a temporary love , permanent always originate from the heart”

— Osunsakin Adewale

“My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.”

— Darin Strauss

“Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We cannot say much about love at first sight. It happens, and we live in the wake of a new life.”

— Rumi

“I think it was love at first sight for both of us; it just took us a little while to figure it out. That was understandable, considering we were being stuck with needles, shot through with radioactive particles, possibly poisoned by the horrific substances the hospital tried to pass off as food, and then, when we got discharged, running away and stealing cars together.”

— James Patterson

“Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

“I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the same time, it makes me nervous and self-conscious and emotional. Love exists. I know it does, because I'm madly, deeply, hopelessly in love.”

— Simone Elkeles

“In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“I want a Sunday kind of love
A love to last past Saturday night
And I'd like to know it's more than love at first sight”

— Etta James

“What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?”

— Mary C. Ames

“When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. Itʹs obsession at first sight.”

— Thomas Boswell

“O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread ...”

— Saint Augustine

“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”

— E. M. Forster

“I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on ... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.”

— Andre Breton

“I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.”

— William Hazlitt

“Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.”

— William Hazlitt

“It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.”

— Lucille Ball

“Contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.”

— Herman Melville

“A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all ... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.”

— Robert Genn