52 Inspiring Attraction Quotes

In the fast-paced rhythm of our modern lives, moments of inspiration can often be the guiding hand that leads us through the maze of daily challenges and aspirations. Whether it’s the allure of a new experience, the magnetic pull of a captivating idea, or the simple wonder of an uncharted destination, attractions possess an undeniable power to inspire transformation and growth. In this collection, we've gathered 52 stirring quotes that encapsulate the essence of attraction in its myriad forms. These words of wisdom and creativity serve as a gentle reminder of the beauty and potential that lie in our pursuits, offering fresh perspectives and invigorating the spirit. Dive into these inspiring quotes and let them spark your imagination, fuel your dreams, and perhaps even draw you a step closer to the magnetic attractions that await in your journey.

1. “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.” - Victor Hugo

2. “Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.” - William Shakespeare

3. “Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.” - Hermann Hesse

4. “I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so.""It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.” - Wodehouse

5. “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.” - John Green

6. “Tonight was... well, it was perfect for me too. You've turned my world upside down. I've fallen in love with you, chica, and it scares the fuckin' shit outta me. I've been shakin' all night, because I knew it.I've tried to deny it, to make you think I wanted you as a fake girlfriend, but that was a lie.” - Simone Elkeles

7. “One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.” - Alain De Botton

8. “Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.” - Jodi Picoult

9. “Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.” - Steve Kluger

10. “Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn't work. I've tried it.” - David Sedaris

11. “I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest tiniest littlest bit kinda sorta interested in him.” - Sarah Ockler

12. “Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.” - Steig Larssen

13. “When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed, leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila's horses' hooves have ever scoured.” - Ernest Hemingway

14. “He doesn't jingle my chimes.” - Peggy Webb

15. “I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed. Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.” - Groucho Marx

16. “The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

17. “Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky...” - John Noble Wilford

18. “If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?” - Deb Caletti

19. “Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.” - Jonathan Franzen

20. “A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.” - Rosen Trevithick

21. “In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.” - Thomas Harris

22. “My prototype of a woman was the type who would appear in hallucinations at the last moments of your freezing to death at the top of an icy mountain, a mythical beauty who blurred the line between dreams and reality. For four years, that’s what I believed. And I wasted all of my university days–during which I had the most courage and honesty I would ever have towards life–because of it.” - Miaojin Qiu (邱妙津)

23. “It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher.” - Dr. Joe Vitale

24. “Oh no I know that look. What are you thinking?That this is the most ridiculous declaration of attraction I've ever heard” - Jennifer L. Armentrout

25. “But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.” - Jane Austen

26. “it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.” - Judith Krantz

27. “There are very few, very fuckin' few people, Kia, who get what's precious in this world. They work their asses off for pure shit and think they'd fight and die to keep it. You don't fight and die for shit. You fight and die for things that matter. You are the first woman I've met outside a life that leads you to understand that shit who gets that. And straight up, baby, you gotta know, I like that a fuckuva lot.” - Kristen Ashley

28. “Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under the speed of light, and then crashed into each other? Only here alcohol, accentuated secondary sexual characteristics and primitive "rock and roll" beats take the place of velocity.” - Paul Murray

29. “Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.” - Janette Rallison

30. “Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.” - Lois McMaster Bujold

31. “Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know?” - James Lusarde

32. “His voice was like soothing melted chocolate. I wanted him to ooze his lovely voice all over my naked body.” - James Lusarde

33. “As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be,Your attraction to me must in some way lack,Such a pity to spend time on thee.” - Charlotte M. Liebel

34. “A woman is at her greatest peril in the presence of a beautiful man.” - Jed Rubenfeld

35. “If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.” - Matt D. Miller

36. “The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs - it's been documented - discover that if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier, and the small frog appears much larger than it really is.""So?""So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.""Your analogy falls down when it comes to female artists," said Jimmy. "They're not in it to get laid. They'd gain no biological advantage from amplifying themselves, since potential mates would be deterred rather than attracted by this sort of amplification. Men aren't frogs, they don't want women who are ten times bigger than them.""Female artists are biologically confused," said Crake.” - Margaret Atwood

37. “If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more” - Ashly Lorenzana

38. “It's chemical, fancying him is purely chemical. It's intoxicating - the frisson, the attraction - it's intoxicating because it's purely chemical. But you'll just have to remember the wedding ring - divorcees don't wear wedding rings. This guy has his own Vita at home. You're his potential Suzie. Is that who you want to be? Do you want the next man in your life to have Tim's principles?” - Freya North

39. “There's no rule that says attraction warrents trust. If that were the case, then more wedded couple would be happier.” - Jennifer Hudson Taylor

40. “It's so funny castle, you know, at first I loved that he was so busy. It just, it just gave me the opportunity to keep one foot out the door just on case.But with one foot out the door, it's hard to know where you stand. And even if I did what does it mean?” - Richard Castle

41. “She had to remember not to look at him when he smiled like that.” - Missy Lyons

42. “Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.” - Margaret Way

43. “There are also other factors that make a person attractive to us, which have to do with what we sense we can experience with them, and how think they can enhance the quality of our life. We may feel that they have the capacity to bring more healing, passion, peace, exuberance, ease, fulfillment, or joy into our life.” - Linda Bloom

44. “That's the kind of guy you'd follow to hell and back.” - Richelle Mead

45. “I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive.” - John Fowles

46. “Maybe attraction was aligned in heaven before our birth because there was no other way to explain my feelings. There were millions of boys on the earth. Why did it feel so strong?” - Belinda Jeffrey

47. “There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.” - John Dickson

48. “She exuded sexuality almost tangible, like ink obscuring the waters around the octopus before it strikes.” - Travis Luedke

49. “She had a thing for cocky assholes. When they expressed interest in her it seemed meaningful. When nice guys hit on her, she had trouble caring. ” - Lucinda Rosenfeld

50. “Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction.” - Donna Lynn Hope

51. “He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.” - Laura Anderson Kurk

52. “I read your poem," I croaked. "'Fall.'"Then something I never thought would happen, happened: Marcus Flutie was shocked by something I said."You did?" he said. "I thought you lost it!""Well someone found it for me. Where do you get off saying," I lowered my voice, "we'll be naked without shame in paradise?"He didn't open his mouth."I know what that means, you know. Who do you think I am?"He didn't open his mouth."We are never going to be naked without shame in paradise."He didn't open his mouth."We're NEVER going to have sex," I whispered, clearly over-stating my case.He didn't open his mouth. The mouth that used to bite mine."And I'm just going to forget about that biting thing from the other night," I said.He looked at me right in the eyes. If he'd focused hard enough on my pupils, he could've seen his own reflection, his own face smirking at me."You couldn't forget if you tried," he said, before walking away.He's right. And I don't know if I hate him or love him for that.” - Megan McCafferty