Lost Attraction Quotes

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.

Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.

He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

Interestingly, anger and lust are also elusive states once they have passed. Trying to recall why you were angry about something when you've calmed down is like trying to remember why you were in love with someone who no longer attracts you: the initial impulse triggering the emotion is impossible to recapture.

I'd accepted a while ago that there were too many reasons for me to even think about him romantically anymore. Every once in a while, I slipped a little and kind of wished he would too. It'd have been nice to know that he still wanted me, that I still drove him crazy. Studying him now, I realized he might not ever slip because I didn't drive him crazy anymore. It was a depressing thought.

Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.