Best quotes by Helen Fisher on Love

Checkout quotes by Helen Fisher on Love

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

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• ‟ People kill for love. They die for love.

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• ‟ Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

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• ‟ Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

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• ‟ Romantic love is an addiction.

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• ‟ Romantic love is an addiction.

  - Helen Fisher
  

• ‟ Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

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• ‟ You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.

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

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• ‟ Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

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• ‟ You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.

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

  - Helen Fisher
  

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

  - 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 gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.

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• ‟ 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 killing all that when you take the drug.

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• ‟ 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 killing all that when you take the drug.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.

  - Helen Fisher