Love Quotes by Helen Fisher

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

— Helen Fisher

People kill for love. They die for love.

— Helen Fisher

Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.

— Helen Fisher

We are wired to find love.

— Helen Fisher

We are lied to by our love songs.

— Helen Fisher

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

— Helen Fisher

love is like Someone is camping in your head

— Helen Fisher

Romantic love is an addiction.

— Helen Fisher

There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love.

— Helen Fisher

Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

— Helen Fisher

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

— Helen Fisher

There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.

— Helen Fisher

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

— Helen Fisher

We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

— Helen Fisher

Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.

— Helen Fisher

Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.

— Helen Fisher

“...if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.”

— Helen Fisher

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the…

— Helen Fisher

Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but…

— Helen Fisher

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're…

— Helen Fisher

Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct…

— Helen Fisher

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the…

— Helen Fisher

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving…

— Helen Fisher

You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when…

— Helen Fisher

There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important.…

— Helen Fisher

People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.'…

— Helen Fisher

Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone…

— Helen Fisher

Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination…

— Helen Fisher

There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a…

— Helen Fisher

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you…

— Helen Fisher

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's…

— Helen Fisher

That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the…

— Helen Fisher

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

— Helen Fisher

People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.

— Helen Fisher

After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is.

— Helen Fisher

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

— Helen Fisher

I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.

— Helen Fisher

A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.

— Helen Fisher

You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then…

— Helen Fisher

“Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.”

— Helen Fisher