"You know, it's funny... When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."
—Wanda, BoJack Horseman, "Yes And"
"Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight."
— Marilyn French
"Of course I'm being irrational! I'm in love!"
— Dr. Zoidberg, Futurama
"People do crazy things when they're in love."
— Megara and later Herc himself, Hercules
"Tell me I'm pretty!"
— Trixie Tang, while trying to outright kill Timmy Turner when he first broke up with her, The Fairly Oddparents
This ain't by design, girl
Take it softer
You know I'm out my mind, girl
Don't make this harder
Come and light my fire, baby
How much longer 'til December?
Say what you really mean
Take it softer
You know I'm out my mind, girl
Don't make this harder
Come and light my fire, baby
How much longer 'til December?
Say what you really mean
— Yves Tumor, "Gospel for a New Century"
"Valentine's Day [is] the only national occasion dedicated to mental illness."
"Love makes you do crazy things, insane things. Things in a million years you'd never see yourself do. But there you are doing them... can't help it."
— Alex, Wicker Park
"If you haven't seriously thought about killin' a motherfucker, you ain't been in love."
Because that's what people do. They leap and hope to God they can fly because otherwise they just drop like a rock, wondering the whole way down "Why in the hell did I jump?" But here I am, Sara, falling...and there's only one person who makes me feel like I can fly, and that's you.
— Hitch, Hitch
Madness is like love, it makes
you see the world a different way.
Maybe love just helps you say
the things that madness can't convey
you see the world a different way.
Maybe love just helps you say
the things that madness can't convey
— Showbread, "I Think I'm Going to See You"
Juliet: I love him.
Sassy Gay Friend: You love him? You met him Sunday! It's barely Thursday morning. Slow down crazy, slow down.
Juliet: Love makes you crazy.
Sassy Gay Friend: Yeah, I would say so. "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" Translation: "Desperate, desperate, I am really desperate. Are there any stalkers on my grounds?"
Juliet: I'm a grown woman.
Sassy Gay Friend: I think you're fourteen, and you're an idiot. You took a roofie from a priest. Look at your life, look at your choices. Have you even slept with this guy?
Sassy Gay Friend: You love him? You met him Sunday! It's barely Thursday morning. Slow down crazy, slow down.
Juliet: Love makes you crazy.
Sassy Gay Friend: Yeah, I would say so. "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" Translation: "Desperate, desperate, I am really desperate. Are there any stalkers on my grounds?"
Juliet: I'm a grown woman.
Sassy Gay Friend: I think you're fourteen, and you're an idiot. You took a roofie from a priest. Look at your life, look at your choices. Have you even slept with this guy?
"I get a crazy impulse when you smile at me. Like I want to step in front of a bus. In a good way."
"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
You make me wanna hide a weasel in my shorts
You make me wanna phone home
You make me wanna write a dozen book reports
Then pack myself in styrofoam
Sometimes you make me want to build a model
of the Eiffel Tower out of Belgian waffles
You make me wanna phone home
You make me wanna write a dozen book reports
Then pack myself in styrofoam
Sometimes you make me want to build a model
of the Eiffel Tower out of Belgian waffles
— "Weird Al" Yankovic, "You Make Me"
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
He dropped you off, I followed him home
Then I stood outside his bedroom window
Standing over him, he begged me not to do
But I knew, had to do
'Cause I'm so in love with you
Then I stood outside his bedroom window
Standing over him, he begged me not to do
But I knew, had to do
'Cause I'm so in love with you
— Good Charlotte, "Bloody Valentine"
I am nothing,
You are wind and devil and God,
Charlie,
Take my blood and my body
For your love.
Let me feel fire,
Let me drink poison,
Tell me to tear my heart in two,
If that's what you want me to do...
You are wind and devil and God,
Charlie,
Take my blood and my body
For your love.
Let me feel fire,
Let me drink poison,
Tell me to tear my heart in two,
If that's what you want me to do...
— Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, Assassins
"Love is insane, babe, the best kind of insanity. It makes you too happy to notice that you've lost your mind, and since your mind is lost either way wouldn't you rather be happy?"
Worf: I am a fool.
Jadzia: You're in love. Which I suppose is the same thing.
Jadzia: You're in love. Which I suppose is the same thing.
Tuvok: I lost all sense of who I was. The emotional attraction I felt became a kind of insanity.
Paris: Tuvok, everyone feels a little insane when they fall in love, but it's worth the risk.
Tuvok: For you, perhaps. But I am Vulcan. My natural emotions are erratic, volatile. If I don't control them, they will control me.
Paris: Tuvok, everyone feels a little insane when they fall in love, but it's worth the risk.
Tuvok: For you, perhaps. But I am Vulcan. My natural emotions are erratic, volatile. If I don't control them, they will control me.
"There was something about Starfire that made him nuts. Not the kind of nuts that put a knot in your stomach or made you wanna climb a mountaintop to shout out your feelings, no... The nuts that made you hear voices in your head. Voices like mine."
— The voice in Robin's head, Teen Titans Go!
Omnis amans amens.
(Every lover is crazy.)
(Every lover is crazy.)
— Roman proverb
But you've asked a simple question
And I've told you why
It wasn't on a dare or on a whim
It's hard to comprehend now
That the reason why
Was simply that I went along with him
And I've told you why
It wasn't on a dare or on a whim
It's hard to comprehend now
That the reason why
Was simply that I went along with him
— Nathan, Thrill Me
“It’s for love, in the end. Pettiest of all pursuits. Arrogance, greed, even revenge… they’re nobler, trust me. I’ve walked all those roads. But love? It twists all the other things. Makes you misstep, makes you irrational, makes you impatient, above all. We couldn’t have gone down there without getting revenge, without falling to our greed and arrogance. So I was willing to wait. To sit back and put it off, tell myself we didn’t have the firepower, didn’t have the numbers we needed to take on the group at the stairwell. Wait until it was too late.”
— Satyrical, Worm
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
— Theseus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Walk on through a red parade and refuse to make amends
It cuts deep through our ground and makes us forget all common sense
Don't speak as I try to leave 'cause we both know what we'll choose
If you pull then I'll push too deep and I'll fall right back to you
'Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn't need
Chasing relentlessly, still fight and I don't know why
If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy?
If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?
It cuts deep through our ground and makes us forget all common sense
Don't speak as I try to leave 'cause we both know what we'll choose
If you pull then I'll push too deep and I'll fall right back to you
'Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn't need
Chasing relentlessly, still fight and I don't know why
If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy?
If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?
— Zedd, "Clarity"
"Greek attitudes on love and beauty were somewhat contradictory but what we consider infatuation was to the Greeks considered a form of madness, like mental illness, and while some social classes and city states had more favorable views on love, beauty and femininity, there were big influences from philosophers as well."
"You loved her even more than I did, Shin. No one can love, or hate, with more passion than a madman."
— Kenshiro, Fist of the North Star (Streamline English dub of movie)
I'm just a girl in love! (Love love love lovey dove!)
I can't be held responsible for my actions! (She's an Ingenue!)
I have no underlying issues to address
I'm certifiably cute and adorably obsessed!
They say love makes you crazy, therefore you can't call her crazy
Cause when you call her crazy you're just calling her in love!
I can't be held responsible for my actions! (She's an Ingenue!)
I have no underlying issues to address
I'm certifiably cute and adorably obsessed!
They say love makes you crazy, therefore you can't call her crazy
Cause when you call her crazy you're just calling her in love!
— Crazy Ex-Girlfriend season 2 theme song, "I'm Just a Girl in Love"
You are a hot, young stud who has brought his questionably alive lady friend to a forbidden land in order to request that an imprisoned demon bring her back to life—because these arrangements always work out beautifully for all concerned. The demon's terms are that you search the forbidden land for sixteen giant monsters and kill each and every one with a sword that, by rights, they would barely register as a splinter. And if you should happen to notice a mysterious black poison being released with each victory that slowly corrupts your body, then don't worry, that just means it's working! Or you could always just let it go, dig her a nice grave, and look into online dating, but no, giant monster black poison it is. This is what they call "True Love", apparently; something I've always felt is virtually indistinguishable from brain damage.
They say love is blind,
but believe me,
love is insane.
but believe me,
love is insane.
—Dan, Next to Normal, "My Psychopharmacologist and I"
"There is a fine line between devotion and delusion. Love can break more than your heart. It can shatter your mind."
—O'Bengh, What If…? (2021)
"Love will make you do crazy things."
—Will Smith after slapping Chris Rock for joking about Jada Pinkett at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony.
Gunvolt: If we have something, why are you trying to kill me?
Gibril: Because it's young love, duh! It never makes sense.
Gibril: Because it's young love, duh! It never makes sense.
