You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it's... →
Helen Fisher
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.
Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
People kill for love. They die for love.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think... →
People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.