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"When you meet your soulmate, it'll feel like a shock just ran through your whole body, and in that instant, the both of you will fall in love so hard that it hurts. In layman's terms, this is Love at First Sight."
—The God of Love, The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You
"Ran probably doesn’t know it but ever since our first meeting…Your smiling face stole my heart."
— Conan, Case Closed
"I'm water, and he's ice. We must be bound by fate... I can't believe I finally found my handsome prince!"
— Juvia Lockser falling in love with Gray Fullbuster on the spot; Fairy Tail
"If you know you'll never see somebody again, you should fight for them, chase after them, and attempt to win them back. Even if it means giving up your life. If you really love them. And I... I love... love you! I know I just met you, and I don't even know your name yet, but so what? Would you please go out with me?"
— Nasa, Fly Me to the Moon
"The moment I laid eyes on him, my old life just blew away. Everything I saw and heard, everything I felt, the world around me took on color in a way I never knew it could. It began to sparkle."
— Kaori, Your Lie in April
Comic Books
I don't know who the boy was, but when I saw him...it was like I knew in my heart that I'd never be afraid again. Does that make any sense?
— Jean Grey, Classic X-Men #42
Ohh... What a dreamboat! I thought love at first sight was just for fairy tales — until now!
— Supergirl, Supergirl Vol 1 #7
Fan Works
The man was about Kara's age, brown-haired, handsome in a James Deanish way, dressed in a simple green costume, and quite confident in manner. Despite herself, Kara caught her breath. He was... interesting.
Scott: Fine! I care for you too much to be just your friend any more! Every time I see you out with another guy, it rips my heart out! I've loved you from the moment I set eyes on you! I won't play this game anymore.
Jean: Scott...
Scott: Don't.
Jean: You stubborn jerk! Don't you dare run away from me after saying that! I love you, too! I've loved you from the moment you helped me carry my suitcase up the stairs to my room, my first day at school.
Jean: Scott...
Scott: Don't.
Jean: You stubborn jerk! Don't you dare run away from me after saying that! I love you, too! I've loved you from the moment you helped me carry my suitcase up the stairs to my room, my first day at school.
Meenah says that from the minute she first saw Aranea she knew she was the one – the one she wanted, the one she set her heart on. Aranea finds this funny as the first time they met she was completely bundled up and fairly young.
It was not, he realized, that he was there for her. It was simply that he was hers. That he belonged to her—all of him. He always had, ever since meeting her.
Meliodas: (texting) I looked out the window like you told me, and there is this girl who lives in the building across the street.
Ban: So?
Meliodas: She is amazing. Gorgeous. Sweet. A smile like you've never seen. I'm in love.
Ban: What's her name?
Meliodas: No idea.
Ban: So?
Meliodas: She is amazing. Gorgeous. Sweet. A smile like you've never seen. I'm in love.
Ban: What's her name?
Meliodas: No idea.
Film — Animated
Grand Duke: No doubt you saw the picture in pretty detail: The young Prince bowing to the assembly. Suddenly, he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams.
[by then, the Prince has noticed Cinderella and is walking up to her; the King takes notice]
Grand Duke: Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care, for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride. A pretty plot for fairy tales, Sire. But in real life? Oh, no, no! It was foredoomed to failure.
King: Failure, eh? Ha-ha! Take a look at that, you pompous windbag!
"Jiminy jaminy! Look at that high definition—your face! It's amazing..."
—Fix-It Felix, Jr., upon meeting Sergeant Calhoun, Wreck-It Ralph
Film — Live Action
Michael Eckman: Now over here—
(Cameron sees Bianca walking by)
Cameron James: Oh my God! What group is she in?
Michael Eckman: The Don't-Even-Think-About-It Group. Bianca Stratford, she's a Sophomore.
Cameron James: I burn! I pine! I perish!
Michael Eckman: Of course you do.
Light Novels
"You proposed to a complete stranger again, didn't you?"
Literature
There is no point in telling you that she was the most beautiful cat in the world, for you could probably find a thousand cats whose looks by some standard or another were more perfect. But... she was the cat for me. I felt — no, I knew — as soon as I saw her that she was the cat I had been waiting for all my life. In fact, although I had not realized it until then, the whole of my previous life seemed as if it were nothing but a preparation for that moment.
— Pufftail, Stray
"No. I'd never been in love. I was a starved, sexless creature who prided himself—yes, I did—on the fastidious coldness of his nature! And then I did fall in love 'across a room'—a silly violent puppy love. A thing like a midsummer thunderstorm, brief, unreal, quickly over." He added bitterly: "Indeed a 'tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.'"
They see her at a ball, and they are dazzled; at a flower-show, and they are fascinated; on a riding excursion, and they are witched by her noble horsemanship; at church, and they are awed by the sweet solemnity of her demeanor.
'Such a terrible hurry as you've been in. I hate a woman who is in such a hurry.'
'How do you mean that?'
'Why—to be somebody's wife or other—anything's wife rather than nobody's. You couldn't wait for me, O, no. Well, thank God, I'm cured of all that!'
'How merciless you are!' she said bitterly. 'Wait for you? What does that mean, Charley? You never showed—anything to wait for—anything special towards me.'
'O come, Baptista dear; come!'
'What I mean is, nothing definite,' she expostulated. 'I suppose you liked me a little; but it seemed to me to be only a pastime on your part, and that you never meant to make an honourable engagement of it.'
'There, that's just it! You girls expect a man to mean business at the first look. No man when he first becomes interested in a woman has any definite scheme of engagement to marry her in his mind, unless he is meaning a vulgar mercenary marriage.'
"Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet... I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey."
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
"It's not like love at first sight, really. It's more like... gravity moves.... When you see her, suddenly it's not the earth holding you here anymore. She does....and nothing else matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her. You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that's a protector, or a lover, or a friend."
— Jacob Black describing imprinting, Twilight (Eclipse and Breaking Dawn: Part 1)
"Romantic. Did you fall in love at first sight?"
"Oh, yes."
"My nephew Pongo always does. Perhaps it's the best way. Saves time."
— Blandings Castle (Uncle Fred in the Springtime) by P. G. Wodehouse
"They do everything wrong [on The X-Files]," Hutchinson says. "They don't have enough people; they don't trust each other. They don't spend nearly enough time on paperwork. Paperwork saves lives. But most of all? I hate the will-they-or-won't-they. For what, five years? It's forced, it's farcical." She glares at Wheeler. "It doesn't take that long to know. You will or you won't. And then you do."
Wheeler reads her expression carefully. "You do?"
"Yeah," Hutchinson says, smiling again. "Yeah, I think you do."
Live-Action TV
"Oh. Hello, I don't believe we've met."
— Axl Heck first encountering Lexie Brooks, The Middle
"My Dearest Echo, From the moment I first laid eyes on you, I couldn't imagine a day without you. You are my sunshine and my moonlight. You are not only the most beautiful girl I have ever seen, you are smart, funny and have a passion for life like no one else. I could fill libraries with words about you, but I really only need three. I love you. Yours forever..."
— Adam Young's love letter to Echo Zizzleswift, Mr. Young
"There are so many things I want to say to you but time's caught me up and now I'll never say them - except that I've loved you from the moment I saw you and every moment since."
— Robin Hood, Robin of Sherwood
Renor: Do you believe in love at first sight, Jenna?
"It was like something from an old movie, where the sailor sees the girl across the crowded dance floor, turns to his buddy, and says, 'See that girl? I'm gonna marry her someday.'"
— Future Ted on his first meeting with Robin, How I Met Your Mother, "Pilot"
"Nick, you have been in love with this girl since the moment you opened the door and you first laid eyes on her. I have never seen you look at anyone else like that in my entire life."'
—Schmidt talking to Nick about how he feels about Jess, New Girl, "
"Are you saying that the Empress Libido is manifesting that condition that you animals refer to as romantic obsession at initial visual perception?"
[Naomi enters the room. Emily just stares at her.]
I've loved you from the first time I saw you; I think I was 12. It took me... three years to pluck up the courage to speak to you. I was so scared of the way I felt; you know, loving a girl, that I became a sarcastic bitch just to make it feel normal. I screwed guys to make it go away, but it didn't work. When we got together it scared the shit out of me because you were the one person who could ruin my life. I pushed you away. I made you think things were your fault, but really I was just terrified of pain. I screwed that girl Sophia to kind of spite you for having that hold on me. And I'm a total fucking coward because I got these ... these tickets for us for Goa three months ago. But I couldn't stand ... I didn't want to be a slave to the way I feel about you. Can you understand? You were trying to punish me back, and it's horrible. It's so horrible because, really, I'd die for you. I love you. I love you so much it's killing me.
— Naomi, Skins
Music
I've just seen a face
I can't forget the time or place
And we'd just met, she's just the girl for me
And I want all the world to see we've met
— The Beatles, "I've Just Seen a Face"
Do you believe in love at first sight?
Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time.
What do you see when you turn out the light?
I can't tell you but I know it's mine.
— The Beatles, "With a Little Help From My Friends"
I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of Earth and water
Fire flying from your hands
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of Earth and water
Fire flying from your hands
— Elton John, "The One''
Then she appeared, apple Venus on a half open shell
Then she appeared, the first photograph on Fox Talbot's gel
I was a little frightened
Flying with my senses heightened
Cherubim cheered
Then she appeared
— XTC, "Then She Appeared"
Just one look and I knew
You would make everything clear
Make all the clouds disappear
You're better than all the rest
Who do I love the best
— The Jets, "You Got It All"
Oh dream weaver,
I believe you can get me through the night.
Oh dream weaver.
I believe we can reach the morning light.
I believe you can get me through the night.
Oh dream weaver.
I believe we can reach the morning light.
— Gary Wright, "Dream Weaver"
"It was love, at first sight,
'Cause baby,
When I heard you,
For the first time, I knew,
We were meant, to be as one."
'Cause baby,
When I heard you,
For the first time, I knew,
We were meant, to be as one."
— Kylie Minogue, "Love at First Sight"
Then I saw her face
Now I'm a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind
I'm in love
I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her if I tried
Now I'm a believer
Not a trace of doubt in my mind
I'm in love
I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her if I tried
— The Monkees, "I'm a Believer"
Theatre
I don't know how or why
Or who am I that I should get to hold you
But when I saw you all alone against the sky
It's like I’d known you all along
I knew you before we met
And I don’t even know you yet
All I know is you're someone I have always known
All I know is you’re someone I have always known
And I don't even know you
Now I wanna hold you, hold you close
I don't wanna ever have to let you go
Or who am I that I should get to hold you
But when I saw you all alone against the sky
It's like I’d known you all along
I knew you before we met
And I don’t even know you yet
All I know is you're someone I have always known
All I know is you’re someone I have always known
And I don't even know you
Now I wanna hold you, hold you close
I don't wanna ever have to let you go
"Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?"
Your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage: they are in the very wrath of love and they will together; clubs cannot part them.
— Rosalind, As You Like It
I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again.
Mine ear is much enamored of thy note.
So is mine eye enthrallèd to thy shape.
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
Mine ear is much enamored of thy note.
So is mine eye enthrallèd to thy shape.
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.
—Titania to Bottom, A Midsummer Night's Dream
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
—Giuseppe Verdi, Falstaff
Video Games
Lok: Tak, I have been smitten by love.
Tak: With the Black Mist?
Lok: No!
To Wei Ning—
More than anything, I hate the idea that we will be remembered as a tragedy. That's not true. I reserve that distinction for the monster that took you from me. But I know it's what you would hate the most. You, who were always so full of laughter.
So now, in this moment, as the ship named for my vengeance flies me and five others to Luna, I will remember the happy times.
Our first meeting, in the Tower saloon. Your laugh made the glasses clatter. You bought three rounds for the entire room. Pahanin introduced us. You sat me down next to you and plied me with questions about Stormtrances. All things that on any other night would have annoyed me. But that night — because it was you — I knew then and there that I never wanted to be without you.
More than anything, I hate the idea that we will be remembered as a tragedy. That's not true. I reserve that distinction for the monster that took you from me. But I know it's what you would hate the most. You, who were always so full of laughter.
So now, in this moment, as the ship named for my vengeance flies me and five others to Luna, I will remember the happy times.
Our first meeting, in the Tower saloon. Your laugh made the glasses clatter. You bought three rounds for the entire room. Pahanin introduced us. You sat me down next to you and plied me with questions about Stormtrances. All things that on any other night would have annoyed me. But that night — because it was you — I knew then and there that I never wanted to be without you.
Web Original
"She only said one sentence to me, but it was so...non-fragmented that I know she has to be the one!"
— The Nostalgia Critic, imitating the male lead of Titanic: The Legend Goes On
He grinned, and everything about him was perfect, and I fell in love instantly.
— Cecil Palmer, Welcome to Night Vale, describing Carlos
"Then a girl with bread in her mouth came dashing by... [Rohan] crashed into her... And they fell in love~ Man, that was dumb."
— Thoth, Vaguely Recalling JoJo
"Love at first sight is the only true love."
Romeo: Oh my god, I can't believe we're in love already!
Juliet: I know!
