Crushes Sayings and Quotes

Crushes. We’ve all had them. It starts with a flicker of interest that quickly boils and bubbles over to full-blown infatuation. Is it love? Is it obsession? A combination of both? Whichever way a crush tugs at your insides, it’s a reminder that you are alive. Below you’ll find a curated collection of wise, inspirational and humorous crush quotes, sayings, and proverbs.

Teenage crush is like flu. If you find a remedy for it, it lasts for a couple of days. If you don't, it still lasts for a couple of days. Raheel Farooq
Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming. Maya Banks
Infatuation is like a drug that gives you the best high yet gives you the worst headache after. Luke Blaise Pereira
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. Shana Alexander
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart. Joseph Bartlett
To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed. Valerie Lombardo
If I had a single flower for every time I think of you, I could walk forever in my garden. Claudia Adrienne Grandi
There's always one teacher you have a crush on. For me it's my wife's aerobics instructor. Brian Kiley
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, a day to love someone...but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Kahlil Gibran
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. Stephen Colbert
A subway crush is simply someone you most likely will never talk to or even meet, but will stare at adoringly from afar. It's a crush in the simplest, most intense sense of the word. Jason Gordon
It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too. Stephen Chbosky
Just thinking about you brings a smile to face, a twinkle to my eye, and a skipped beat to my heart. Ash Sweeney
You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman. Jennifer Saunders
Sometimes I just can't ignore the way I feel when I see you smile. unknown
It's nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you're alive, you know? Scarlett Johansson
Your eyes make me shy. Anais Nin
I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss. Maureen O'Hara
What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst. Steig Larsson
And when you love someone you don't always see them realistically. P. C. Cast
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Joseph Addison
My insides still turn over when he looks at me that certain way. Judy Blume
Even without a kiss, this moment is perfect, and you wouldn't trade it for anything. Jill Santopolo
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. Charles M. Schulz
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. Walt Whitman
I think about you constantly, whether it's with my mind or my heart. Terri Guillemets
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
When I find myself thinking of you, it is all the good memories that we had that bring a smile to my face. Catherine Pulsifer
I like her because she smiles at me and means it. Terri Guillemets
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. Thich Nhat Hanh
Isn't it funny how just one little phone call or text can make your bad day suddenly wonderful ! Nishan Panwar
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. Raymond Chandler
Often, when a girl has a crush on a boy, her friend will dare her to speak to him or ask for a pencil, or better yet, let him know that she has a crush. Pretty risky stuff... It happens thousands of times a day in the lives of teenagers everywhere. Putting yourself out there. Daring to expose your true feelings. Jazz Jennings
I got a crush on you; I hope you feel the way that I do: I get a rush when I’m with you; Oh, I got a crush on you. Mandy Moore
I have a crush on your mind. I fell for your personality. Your looks are just a bonus. Nicholas Sparks
Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er. Stephanie Perkins
When you have crush you become nothing but a poet. Sikhwetha maanda stanley
Cause I’m trying and trying to walk away, but I know this crush ain’t goin’ away. David Archuleta
The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even dust could crush him. Mahatma Gandhi
It's difficult when old friends grow apart, it still totally crushes my heart. Arlene De’Sha Jennings
One single feather crushes the whole swarm. Walter Savage Landor
Your brute-force crushes a legion, but a soul it can never reach. John Boyle O'Reilly
Everyday's gray grief crushes you. Georg Trakl