Quotes on 'love at first sight'

Abdellah Taïa:

"Later on, I became brave and went up and talked to him, complimented him. He looked up and smiled, and I fell for him, instantly, immediately. Like what some people call love at first sight. What I call mutual recognition, how two people recognize they were meant for one another. It’s the mektoub of lovers."

Gregory David Roberts:

"The ancient Sanskrit legends speak of a destined love, a karmic connection between souls that are fated to meet and collide and enrapture one another. The legends say that the loved one is instantly recognized because she's loved in every gesture, every expression of thought, every movement, every sound, and every mood that prays in her eyes. The legends say that we know her by her wings – the wings that only we can see – and because wanting her kills every other desire of love.

The same legends also carry warnings that such fated love may, sometimes, be the possession and the obsession of one, and only one, of the two souls twinned by destiny. But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise."

Anthony Robbins:

"Falling in love can be such a heady, disorienting feeling because it's not a balanced one. You're not making a balance sheet of a person's good and bad qualities, running it through a computer and seeing what comes out. You're totally associated with a few elements of another person that you find intoxicating. You're not even aware, in that moment, at least, of that person's 'faults.'"

Sources

Abdellah Taïa. An Arab Melancholia. (2008) Translated from the French by Frank Stock. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2012. p. 120.

Gregory David Roberts. Shantaram. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003. p. 25.

Anthony Robbins. Unlimited Power. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1986. p. 105.