Falling in love Quote by Margaret Atwood

“…falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our consciousness.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

“I was not falling in love; I was certainly not falling in love. Love was a fiction, written by Nature to disguise her real…

— Beatriz Williams

“Love was a chemistry that caused constant, overwhelming euphoria.”

— Nikki Sex

Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In…

— Margaret Atwood

“When you were young you talked about ‘falling in love’ with such amusing gravity, as if it were an actual recordable event, when what…

— Liane Moriarty

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

— Tess Gerritsen

“Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.”

— Marisha Pessl

“I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.”

— J.A. Redmerski

“But the trouble with falling in love was that it was involuntary, no matter how well you knew it was a bad idea, if…

— Katie Fforde

“Love is a trance between which oscillates between hormones and emotions.”

— Chandan Sharma

“Love is a trance which oscillates between hormones and emotions.”

— Chandan Sharma

“When you fall in love, everything is impregnated with new meaning. It is as if you suddenly have borderline personality disorder.”

— Chloe Thurlow