Quotes about Fascination

Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like forward and farther are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it. (If fascination with the word forward has become universal, isn't it mainly because death is already speaking to us from nearby?)

Her nascent love inflamed her sense of beauty.

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.

If there is a kiss cam on the screen, of course I'm going to watch it.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

He stood looking up at her; it was not a glance, but an act of ownership. She thought she must let her face give him the answer he deserved. But she was looking, instead, at the stone dust on his burned arms, the wet shirt clinging to his ribs, the lines of his long legs. She was thinking of those statues of men she had always sought; she was wondering what he would look like naked. She saw him looking at her as if he knew that.

You know, there's a thing that stumps me. You're the coldest man I know. And I can't understand why - knowing that you're actually a fiend in your quiet sort of way - why I always feel, when I see you, that you're the most life-giving person I've ever met.

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

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.