Infatuated Quotes

• Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, "Mamma, mamma." You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc., If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.

  Ramakrishna

  Mother, Running, Children

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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• You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time.

  Teresa Lo

  Like Love, Infatuation, Okay

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• I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cutting, Fancy, Infatuation

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

  Jim Morrison

  Evil, Violence, Infatuation

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• Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Giving, Mind

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Time, Men, Doe

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

  Channing Tatum

  Soldier, Hollywood, Looks

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• Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.

  Sylvia Plath

  Love, Dream, Cutting

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.20, Anchor

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• He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Sacred, Infatuation

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

  Camille Paglia

  Past, Rome, Hopeless

  "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times". Book by Charles Derber, p. 12, 2017.

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• It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

  Margaret Fuller

  Self, Armor, Slave

  Margaret Fuller (1844). “Summer on the Lakes”, p.73, Ardent Media

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• Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

  Cyril Connolly

  Passion, Ignorance, Darkness

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• After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Computer, Infatuation, Burnt Out

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• Don't divide the world into "them" and "us."

  Donald Rumsfeld

  World, Rivals, Resentment

  Donald Rumsfeld (2004). “The World According to Rummy”, Welcome Rain Publishers

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• Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

  Henry James

  Men, Ninety Nine, Class

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1147, Delphi Classics

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• Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, World, Rivals

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century." This happened before the First World War and it wasn't just the soldiers. You can see it happening if you read the Bloomsbury biographies. It was a reaction to a great extent against Victorianism. There was so much that was repressive and stuffy. Victorian buildings were associated with it, and they were regarded as very ugly. Even when they weren't ugly, people made them ugly. They were painted hideously.

  Jane Jacobs

  War, Ideas, People

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, Infatuation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.

  Lisa Unger

  Love, Fall, Eye

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.259, Crown

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• My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cutting, Understanding, Decay

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• I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Acceptance, Thinking

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• Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.

  Peter Gay

  Religious, Children, Psychological Needs

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• I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, Gold, Directors

  "Q&A with 'King's Speech' director Tom Hooper". Interview with Walter Addiego, www.sfgate.com. February 4, 2011.

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• The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.

  Guru Nanak

  Pain, Soul, Ignorant

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• In an interview John [Linnell] said, 'At a certain point you just get tired of the way the other person breathes,' and I took that pretty hard because I, personally, am infatuated with the way John breathes.

  John Flansburgh

  Tired, Way, Interviews

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