“The love that exists between wife and husband is infatuation. The love that exists among friends and relations is attachment. The love towards material objects is desire. Love in totality, directed towards God is known as devotion.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)

“Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.”
Henry James (American expatriate writer 1843-1916)

“Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.”
Jim Morrison (American Poet and Singer. Member of The Doors and one of rock music’s mythic figures. 1943-1971)

“Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?”
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

“There is no disease (so destructive) as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge.”
Chanakya (Indian Politician, strategist and Writer, 350 BC-275 BC)

“Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.”
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

“I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn’t mean I don’t still get an enormous kick out of infatuation; the exciting ephemera, the punch in the stomach, the adrenaline to the heart.”
Anna Quindlen (American bestselling Author and Journalist, b.1953)