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Helen Fisher Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“Love is in us. It's deeply embedded in the brain. Our challenge is to understand each other.”
— Helen Fisher, The brain in love
Tagged: Love, Empathy
“Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it?”
— Helen Fisher, The brain in love
Tagged: Love, Existential Crisis
“I've also come to believe that romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.”
— Helen Fisher, The brain in love
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship, Unrequited Love, Addiction
“These three brain systems -- lust, romantic love and attachment -- don't always go together.”
— Helen Fisher, Transcript of "Why we love, why we cheat"
Tagged: Why People Cheat, Cheating happens
“But romantic love is much more than a cocaine high -- at least you come down from cocaine. Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being. Somebody is camping in your head... And the obsession can get worse when you've been rejected.”
— Helen Fisher, The brain in love
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship, Unrequited Love, Rejection, Break Up
“You can feel deep attachment to a long-term partner while you feel intense romantic love for somebody else, while you feel the sex drive for people unrelated to these other partners. In short, we're capable of loving more than one person at a time.”
— Helen Fisher, Transcript of "Why we love, why we cheat"
Tagged: Why People Cheat, Cheating happens
“Around the world, people love. They sing for love, they dance for love, they compose poems and stories about love. They tell myths and legends about love. They pine for love, they live for love, they kill for love, and they die for love.”
— Helen Fisher, The brain in love
Tagged: Love, Romantic
“Almost nobody gets out of love alive.”
— Helen Fisher, The brain in love
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship
“It has all of the characteristics of addiction. You focus on the person, you obsessively think about them, you crave them, you distort reality, your willingness to take enormous risks to win this person. And it's got the three main characteristics of addiction: tolerance, you need to see them more, and more, and more; withdrawals; and last, relapse. I've got a girlfriend who's just getting over a terrible love affair. It's been about eight months, she's beginning to feel better. And she was driving along in her car the other day, and suddenly she heard a song on the car radio that reminded her of this man. And she -- not only did the instant craving come back, but she had to pull over from the side of the road and cry. So, one thing I would like the medical community, and the legal community, and even the college community, to see if they can understand, that indeed, romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.”
— Helen Fisher, The brain in love
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Relationship, Unrequited Love, Addiction
“I would also like to tell the world that animals love. There's not an animal on this planet that will copulate with anything that comes along. Too old, too young, too scruffy, too stupid, and they won't do it. Unless you're stuck in a laboratory cage -- and you know, if you spend your entire life in a little box, you're not going to be as picky about who you have sex with -- but I've looked in a hundred species, and everywhere in the wild, animals have favorites. As a matter of fact ethologists know this. There are over eight words for what they call "animal favoritism:" selective proceptivity, mate choice, female choice, sexual choice. And indeed, there are now three academic articles in which they've looked at this attraction, which may only last for a second, but it's a definite attraction.”
— Helen Fisher, The brain in love
Tagged: Love, Animals, Attraction
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