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Amity: I think... I think I hurt my leg. But, I'll be okay!
Luz: Are you sure? I could help carry you if it really hurts!
Amity: I'm fiine! W-Who's Amity?
Luz: (picks up Amity) Aaaaand... scoop!
Amity: Oh, wow... sports!
The Owl House, "Wing It Like Witches"

"That isn't love. That's brain damage. Though I do understand your confusion between the two, some days."
Nightcrawler, Excalibur (Marvel Comics)

"Love isn't only blind. It's deaf and dumb! Especially dumb!"''
Reggie Mantle, Archie Comics

"Ah, love... so stupid."

"Since the beginning of time, it's been the woman who leads the man astray."
V.V., Code Geass

Worm King: He's bluffing! No creature would willingly make an idiot out of itself!
Fry: Obviously, you've never been in love!

Grim: Love makes people do all sorts of stupid things.
Billy: I love everything.
Grim: That explains a lot.

Everyone in love is something of an idiot.
Alan Shore, Boston Legal

Worf: I am a fool.
Jadzia: You're in love - which I suppose is the same thing.

A woman happily in love, she burns the soufflé. A woman unhappily in love, she forgets to turn on the oven.
The Baron, Sabrina

Enrique: Sarita. Forgive me. When a man is in love, he is not... not himself.
Crow T. Robot: He is another, stupider man.

"Love makes all men fools, goes the adage, and the adage is correct. Any man who has been in love can confirm this; any man who has not been in love yet should consider himself forewarned; every woman who intends to make a man love her should be prepared to lower her expectations regarding his intellectual prowess."
Heroics for Beginners by John Moore

Humans make a lot of mistakes when they're horny.
Michael, The Good Place

Love is for mortals and fools.

Wiz: [Leon]'s pretty gullible, oftentimes tricked by those wilier than himself.
Boomstick: Like her [Ada Wong]? You think he might just be trying to get laid? Lord knows I've done a few dumb things on that quest.

Goldie: Lazlo's sabotaging his own chances at winning the [P1 racing] championship.
Diane: No joke! Guess he really is gone on Sugar.
Goldie: Yeah, but I still don't get it. If he wants to make her happy, why doesn't he just let her win? Or quit? This is such a crazy scheme...
Diane: I dunno, Goldie. People do some bonkers stuff for love.
(Goldie and Diane look at each other, both blushing)
Goldie Vance, Issue #10

I didn't realise how much I hated that play until I agreed to do it. I don't mind Shakespeare so much, but I really hate Othello. Here was a guy who had been all over the world, kicking ass, looting, plundering and probably raping the baddest babes on the planet. Then he falls in love with some teenager and loses his fucking mind. I don't like that idea at all. I mean, how stupid was he?

"Where I come from, Christian, there are women of such beauty, that they can possess a man's mind so that he would be willing to die for them."

"You're not listening... Well, your heart is not. Love is deaf as well as blind. That's it."
Merlin, Excalibur

"I know you love her at least, from all the terrible choices that you've made."
Zagreus, Hades

Samson: A man must marry where his heart leads him, little mother.
Hazelelponit: A man's heart can be blind, son.

"Some big, hardboiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang, he cracks up and goes sappy!"
Carl Denham, King Kong (1933)

Shinji couldn't help but smile at Hikari, knowing where this was likely heading. He watched as every brain cell immediately disappeared from his best friend, turning her into nothing but a pile of hormones.

"In fact, the number one symptom of love might be that it turns you into an idiot."
Megumi Nagatani, Kindred Spirits on the Roof, "Cardinal Symptom: Idiocy"

"Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong."

Alicia: Do you have any idea what I went through to set this fake kidnapping up?!
Red: Did you say... fake kidnappin'?
Stare: Oh dear... I suspected as much. Big sis... You've got a lot of explaining to do.
Alicia: Ah... well, you see... Waffle was supposed to...
Waffle: We were all really worried about you, okay?! What was the meaning of all this?
Flare: Did you really want to get Waffle's attention so badly?
Red: Don't tell me that's the reason you put me through all of this?
Alicia: Um...
Red: Oh great! That's exactly what you're tellin' me, isn't it?!
Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, "Quest: A Kidnapped Sister"

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