Welcome to our collection of Crush Quotes! Whether you’ve got butterflies in your stomach, can’t stop thinking about that special someone, or simply want to express your feelings, you’ve come to the right place. Crushes are a beautiful and exciting part of life, and they can leave us feeling both elated and nervous at the same time. To help you capture the essence of this unique emotion, we’ve gathered a selection of heartfelt, witty, and relatable quotes about crushes.
Below, you’ll find a curated list of crush quotes that can be used in various ways. You can copy them to share with friends, post them on social media, or even transform them into visually stunning creations by placing them on images and enhancing them with stylish fonts. These quotes are here to inspire and resonate with the emotions you experience when you have a crush, so dive in and let them speak to your heart. Enjoy exploring the world of crushes through the words of others!
In high school, sometimes you just can’t help who you have a crush on and who you fall for! If you fall for one of your friend’s exes, for example, it’s really all about communication and telling your friend. Hiding it is never a good thing. Jillian Rose Reed
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke
A lot of libertarians and ultra-capitalists like to put out this idea that competition makes for better creativity. But it’s just because we don’t see all the creativity that’s been crushed. Boots Riley
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain
When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to ‘crush’ the Ants. These guys hated each other. Jon Taffer
I never really had a celebrity crush when I was little. I know some of my friends have posters up on their bedroom wall; I was never really about that. Sadie Sink
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn’t you help him? Oskar Schindler
Like every other teenage girl, I was a great fan of Hrithik sir. This childhood crush was not like others though – the love for him was so deep in my heart that my boarding school hostel room was filled with his posters which I didn’t let any one touch. My heart was broken when I saw him getting married. Shakti Mohan
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. Michael Gove
When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn’t interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn’t into me. Luke Pasqualino
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable. Andrew Solomon
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. Simone Weil
Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book ‘Crush It!’? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I’ve built. Gary Vaynerchuk
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. John Stuart Mill
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they’ve been hurt, they’re sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that’s protecting this tiny, dear part in them that’s still alive. Jeff Bridges
I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy – any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from Dr. Hauschka in a crushed berry tone. I never put anything on my eyes, or I look like Joan Crawford. Jane Birkin
Everyone can have a crush on anyone, be it on a real person or a celebrity. Ram Gopal Varma
When I’ve mentioned my screen wife is Helen Baxendale, so many people have burst out laughing. My self-esteem has been crushed by it. Greg Davies
I’ve got a crush on my backing singer. Amy Winehouse
Life will not break your heart. It’ll crush it. Henry Rollins
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. Franz Kafka
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. Franklin D. Roosevelt
I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, ‘Get off me, you two!’ Emo Philips
Ethno-nationalism – it’s losers. It’s a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, eh, help crush it more. Steve Bannon
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn’t have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed. Joe Strummer
When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed. Jennie Finch
What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth… today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up. Rahul Gandhi
The myth of redemptive violence – Caesar, peace, and victory – is in people’s bones so deeply, we aren’t even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that’s how we bring peace. Rob Bell
My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He’s just timeless! Zendaya
I’ve got the biggest crush on Patti Smith. Shaun Evans
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. Lech Walesa
I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over. Will Smith
The longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats. Steve Bannon
All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don’t let anybody crush your dream. Patti LaBelle
The office is a romantic enabler because you’re always around the person you have a crush on. There’s no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there’s an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time. Joshua Ferris
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them. Abraham Lincoln
If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort. William Lyon Mackenzie King
I’ve probably cried with a lot of songs – in teenage crushes, adult crushes. Aretha Franklin
Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you’ll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it’s twice the efficiency of a Prius. Elon Musk
Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid. Oscar Isaac
I’ve got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn’t going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you. Courteney Cox
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too. Tom Hanks
When you’re 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you’re in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It’s like being underwater; everything is different. Wes Anderson
Don’t think of him as a Republican. Think of him as the man I love, and if that doesn’t work, think of him as the man who can crush you. Maria Shriver
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. Joseph Addison
It’s not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others. John Malkovich
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. Jean Paul
Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same. Sukarno
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. Virgil Thomson
I definitely have guys that I’m friends with that I have a crush on, and you don’t want to ruin the friendship. Miranda Cosgrove
Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it. Peter Diamandis
I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private. Holly Hunter
Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure. Sloane Crosley
If watching your child die is a parent’s worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead… Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us. Ann Hood
Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially name-calling. ‘You’re dangerous!’ ‘Deceived.’ ‘A false prophet.’ ‘A compromiser!’ Charges like these by young-earth leaders, both spoken and implied, are intended to discredit, maim, and crush old-earth advocates, including me. Hugh Ross
I don’t think I’ve ever been in love, I’m sure I will be some day. I’ve had enormous crushes, although I’ve never been into the Brad Pitt thing. Natalie Portman
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don’t exist because you’ve crushed anyone’s desire to do the right thing with all these incentives. Barry Schwartz
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. Noam Chomsky
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. Miriam Makeba
I never have crushes, apart from my husband Michael, I guess, because I was obsessed with him, and I didn’t speak to him for nearly a year. I kept going into the restaurant where he worked to look at him. Pete Burns
Guys never looked at me. I always had crushes on older seniors who never looked at me. So, when I tell directors that I wanna play that girl who gets rejected, they’re like, ‘Why?’ I tell them it’s because I relate to that girl much more than being the girl who makes jaws drop when she walks into a room. Katrina Kaif
Oh, I do have a crush… on Paul Rudd. Camille Rowe
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimir Lenin
From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy. Edward Grey
My confidence never gets crushed. Whatever happens, my attitude doesn’t change. Wojciech Szczesny
I was in an Uber in Vegas with some friends, and ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ came on. My driver didn’t recognize me but started to talk about how much he loved Daya and how he had a crush on her. Daya
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed. Waverley Lewis Root
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it. Angelina Grimke
Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that’s where he wanted to be. Fay Wray
I have such a crush on Tony Robbins and his passion, empathy, and sheer talent. Krysten Ritter
The first CD that I ever bought was ‘Britney Spears.’ It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, ‘Can I get this?’ It was literally her EP and I picked it up and, of course, I fell in love with her. It was an early crush for me. Joe Jonas
I got kicked out of Catholic school, by the way, because I was too feminine. I was too feminine and I had a crush on this boy named Anthony and the nuns were not having it. Carmen Carrera
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire. Karl Liebknecht
Everybody’s going to get crushed at some point. Everybody’s going to go through a downturn or struggle, right? Jason Kelce
I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents. Tre Cool
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them. Emily Bronte
Shame is something you’ll find a lot of – particularly Catholic – girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That’s the way to crush a girl. Rachel Cusk
Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed. Liang Chow
Ryan Reynolds was my childhood crush. His name is all over the walls of my room. I actually Photoshopped myself into a picture with him my freshman year of high school. Brianna Hildebrand
I’ve had both my eye sockets crushed, I’ve been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I’ve torn a pec, torn biceps. The Undertaker
Well Brooke, I’ve always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her. Michael Jackson
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace. W. Edwards Deming
We can just keep doing it the way we’re doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now – behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role. Gina Raimondo
We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don’t carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it. Jim Caviezel
Sometimes people come up to me and say, ‘You were my teen crush.’ I’m honored and I’m touched, but I also ask, ‘What happened? Why’d you take the poster down?’ I get a little heartbroken in that situation. Christian Slater
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don’t have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want – not only you, your whole family and all people like you. Ai Weiwei
Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be. Jocko Willink
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. Thomas Jefferson
I have so many man crushes – ‘my brother’ Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper – if he’s here today, I might get a bit squealish. Ben Hardy
Intimidation is an unusual animal: it’s a lot about body language and understanding the human psyche. Knowing that usually a direct stare will crush most human souls, and that’s just the basic gist of it… The soul-crushing stare, the fatherly disappointment, mixed with a little bit of hate and rage – you’re on your way. Samoa Joe
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. Mikhail Bakunin
Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can’t even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming ‘Good Luck Chuck.’ Alexander Ludwig
I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that’s how it started. Gary Numan
Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag. Caitlin Moran
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. Kim Elizabeth
It’s nice to have a crush on someone. It feels like you’re alive, you know? Scarlett Johansson
Channing Tatum. He’s a cutie-pie, but he’s also got swag. Before him, my crush was Brad Pitt forever! Christina Milian
Oh I had crushes on all my leading men, I think. Oh, you know who I really had fun with? In this movie ‘Mother, Jugs & Speed,’ I really liked working with Harvey Keitel. Raquel Welch
Time after time we’re told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards – giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on. Richard Trumka
I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush. Joseph P. Bradley