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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
->''"When you meet your soulmate, it'll feel like a shock just ran through your whole body, and in that instant, the both of you will fall in love so hard that it hurts. In layman's terms, this is LoveAtFirstSight."''
-->--'''The God of Love''', ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou''

->''"Ran probably doesn’t know it but ever since our first meeting…Your smiling face stole my heart."''
-->-- '''Conan''', ''Manga/CaseClosed''

->''"I'm [[MakingASplash water]], and he's [[AnIcePerson ice]]. We must be bound by fate... I can't believe I finally found my handsome prince!"''
-->-- '''Juvia Lockser''' falling in love with '''Gray Fullbuster''' on the spot; ''Manga/FairyTail''

->''"If you know you'll never see somebody again, you should fight for them, chase after them, and attempt to win them back. Even if it means giving up your life. If you really love them. And I... I love... love you! I know I just met you, and I don't even know your name yet, but so what? Would you please go out with me?"''
-->-- '''Nasa''', ''Manga/FlyMeToTheMoon''

->''"The moment I laid eyes on him, my old life just blew away. Everything I saw and heard, everything I felt, the world around me took on color in a way I never knew it could. It began to sparkle."''
-->-- '''Kaori''', ''Manga/YourLieInApril''
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
->''I don't know who [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} the boy]] was, but when I saw him...it was like I knew in my heart that I'd never be afraid again. Does that make any sense?''
-->-- '''ComicBook/JeanGrey''', ''Classic X-Men'' #42

->''Ohh... What a dreamboat! I thought love at first sight was just for fairy tales -- until now!''
-->-- '''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1972}} Supergirl Vol 1]]'' #7
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
->The man was about [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]]'s age, brown-haired, handsome in a James Deanish way, dressed in a simple green costume, and quite confident in manner. Despite herself, Kara caught her breath. He was... interesting.
-->-- ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''

->'''Scott:''' Fine! I care for you too much to be just your friend any more! Every time I see you out with another guy, it rips my heart out! I've loved you from the moment I set eyes on you! I won't play this game anymore.\\
'''Jean:''' Scott...\\
'''Scott:''' Don't.\\
'''Jean:''' You stubborn jerk! Don't you dare run away from me after saying that! I love you, too! I've loved you from the moment you helped me carry my suitcase up the stairs to my room, my first day at school.
-->-- ''Fanfic/XMenTheEarlyYears''

->Meenah says that from the minute she first saw Aranea she knew she was the one – the one she wanted, the one she set her heart on. Aranea finds this funny as the first time they met she was completely bundled up and fairly young.
-->-- ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1183382 This Infinite Ache of Regret]]''

->It was not, he realized, that he was there for her. It was simply that he was hers. That he belonged to her—all of him. He always had, ever since meeting her.
-->-- ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide''

->'''Meliodas:''' ''(texting)'' I looked out the window like you told me, and there is this girl who lives in the building across the street.\\
'''Ban:''' So?\\
'''Meliodas:''' She is amazing. Gorgeous. Sweet. A smile like you've never seen. I'm in love.\\
'''Ban:''' What's her name?\\
'''Meliodas:''' No idea.
-->-- ''[[https://twitter.com/prolestarii/status/1247614743529107467/photo/1 Love In The Time Of Corona(virus)]]'', a ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' fic

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[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
->'''Grand Duke:''' No doubt you saw the picture in pretty detail: ''The young Prince bowing to the assembly. Suddenly, he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams.''
->''[by then, the Prince has noticed Cinderella and is walking up to her; the King takes notice]''
->'''Grand Duke:''' ''Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care, for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.'' A pretty plot for fairy tales, Sire. [[ThisIsReality But in real life? Oh, no, no!]] It was foredoomed to failure.
->'''King:''' Failure, eh? Ha-ha! Take a look at ''that'', you pompous windbag!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}''

->''"I have just met you, and I love you!"''
-->-- '''[[BigFriendlyDog Dug]]''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''

->''"Jiminy jaminy! Look at that high definition--your face! It's ''amazing...''"''
-->--'''Fix-It Felix, Jr.''', upon meeting [[LadyOfWar Sergeant Calhoun]], ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''
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[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
->'''Michael Eckman:''' Now over here--
->''(Cameron sees Bianca walking by)''
->
->'''Cameron James:''' Oh my God! What group is she in?
->'''Michael Eckman:''' The Don't-Even-Think-About-It Group. Bianca Stratford, she's a Sophomore.
->'''Cameron James:''' I burn! I pine! I perish!
->'''Michael Eckman:''' Of course you do.
-->-- ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou''
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[[folder:Light Novels]]
->''"You proposed to a complete stranger again, didn't you?"''
-->-- ''[[Literature/{{Baccano}} Baccano! 1932 Drug & The Dominos]]''
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[[folder:Literature]]
->''There is no point in telling you that she was the most beautiful cat in the world, for you could probably find a thousand cats whose looks by some standard or another were more perfect. But... she was the cat for me. I felt -- no, I ''knew'' -- as soon as I saw her that she was the cat I had been waiting for all my life. In fact, although I had not realized it until then, the whole of my previous life seemed as if it were nothing but a preparation for that moment.''
-->-- '''Pufftail''', ''Literature/{{Stray|1987}}''

->"No. I'd never been in love. I was a starved, sexless creature who prided himself--yes, I did--on the fastidious coldness of his nature! And then I did fall in love 'across a room'--a silly violent puppy love. A thing like a midsummer thunderstorm, brief, unreal, quickly over." He added bitterly: "Indeed a 'tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.'"
-->-- ''Literature/SparklingCyanide''

->They see her at a ball, and they are dazzled; at a flower-show, and they are fascinated; on a riding excursion, and they are witched by her noble horsemanship; at church, and they are awed by the sweet solemnity of her demeanor.
-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeEliot''', ''Literature/SillyNovelsByLadyNovelists''

->'Such a terrible hurry as you've been in. I hate a woman who is in such a hurry.'
->'How do you mean that?'
->'Why—to be somebody's wife or other—anything's wife rather than nobody's. You couldn't wait for me, O, no. Well, thank God, I'm cured of all that!'
->'How merciless you are!' she said bitterly. 'Wait for you? What does that mean, Charley? You never showed—anything to wait for—anything special towards me.'
->'O come, Baptista dear; come!'
->'What I mean is, nothing definite,' she expostulated. 'I suppose you liked me a little; but it seemed to me to be only a pastime on your part, and that you never meant to make an honourable engagement of it.'
->'There, that's just it! You girls expect a man to mean business at the first look. No man when he first becomes interested in a woman has any definite scheme of engagement to marry her in his mind, unless he is meaning a vulgar mercenary marriage.'
-->-- ''Literature/AMereInterlude'' by Creator/ThomasHardy

->''"Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet... I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey."''
-->-- '''David Mitchell''', ''Literature/CloudAtlas''

->''"It's not like love at first sight, really. It's more like... gravity moves.... When you see her, suddenly it's not the earth holding you here anymore. She does....and nothing else matters more than her. And you would do anything for her, be anything for her. You become whatever she needs you to be, whether that's a protector, or a lover, or a friend."''
-->-- '''Jacob Black''' describing imprinting, ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' (''Eclipse'' and ''Breaking Dawn: Part 1'')

->"Romantic. Did you fall in love at first sight?"
->"Oh, yes."
->"My nephew Pongo always does. Perhaps it's the best way. Saves time."
-->-- ''Literature/BlandingsCastle'' (''Uncle Fred in the Springtime'') by Creator/PGWodehouse

->"They do everything wrong [on '' Series/TheXFiles'']," Hutchinson says. "They don't have enough people; they don't trust each other. They don't spend nearly enough time on paperwork. Paperwork saves lives. But most of all? I hate the [[WillTheyOrWontThey will-they-or-won't-they]]. For what, five years? It's forced, it's farcical." She glares at Wheeler. "It doesn't take that long to know. You will or you won't. And then you do."
->Wheeler reads her expression carefully. "You do?"
->"Yeah," Hutchinson says, smiling again. "Yeah, I think you do."
-->-- ''Literature/ThereIsNoAntimemeticsDivision''
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
->''"Oh. Hello, I don't believe we've met."''
-->-- '''Axl Heck''' first encountering Lexie Brooks, ''Series/TheMiddle''

->''"My Dearest Echo, From the moment I first laid eyes on you, I couldn't imagine a day without you. You are my sunshine and my moonlight. You are not only the most beautiful girl I have ever seen, you are smart, funny and have a passion for life like no one else. I could fill libraries with words about you, but I really only need three. I love you. Yours forever..."''
-->-- '''Adam Young''''s love letter to Echo Zizzleswift, ''Series/MrYoung''

->''"There are so many things I want to say to you but time's caught me up and now I'll never say them - except that I've loved you from the moment I saw you and every moment since."''
-->-- '''Robin Hood''', ''Series/RobinOfSherwood''

->'''[[CasanovaWannabe Renor]]:''' Do you believe in love at first sight, Jenna?
->'''Jenna:''' [[StealthInsult Not yet.]]
-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven''

->''"It was like something from an old movie, where the sailor sees the girl across the crowded dance floor, turns to his buddy, and says, 'See that girl? I'm gonna marry her someday.'"''
-->-- '''Future Ted''' on his first meeting with Robin, ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', "[[Recap/HowIMetYourMotherS1E01Pilot Pilot]]"

->''"Nick, you have been in love with this girl since the moment you opened the door and you first laid eyes on her. I have never seen you look at anyone else like that in my entire life."'''
-->--'''Schmidt''' talking to Nick about how he feels about Jess, ''Series/NewGirl'', "

->''"Are you saying that the [[DaddysLittleVillain Empress Libido]] is manifesting that condition that you animals refer to as romantic obsession at initial visual perception?"''
-->-- '''[[TheSpock Ficus]]''', ''Series/{{Quark}}'', "All the Emperor's Quasi-Norms"

->[Naomi enters the room. Emily just stares at her.]
->''[[LoveAtFirstSight I've loved you from the first time I saw you; I think I was 12.]] It took me... three years to pluck up the courage to speak to you. I was so scared of the way I felt; you know, [[ComingOutStory loving a girl]], that I became a [[ArmouredClosetGay sarcastic bitch just to make it feel normal.]] [[HaveIMentionedThatIAmHeterosexualToday I screwed guys to make it go away]], [[{{Gayngst}} but it didn't work.]] When we got together it scared the shit out of me because you were the one person who could ruin my life. I pushed you away. I made you think things were your fault, but really [[LoveHurts I was just terrified of pain.]] I screwed that girl Sophia to kind of spite you for having that hold on me. And I'm a total fucking coward because I got these ... these tickets for us for Goa three months ago. But I couldn't stand ... I didn't want to be a slave to the way I feel about you. Can you understand? You were trying to punish me back, and it's horrible. It's so horrible because, really, I'd die for you. I love you. I love you so much it's killing me. ''
-->-- '''Naomi''', ''Series/{{Skins}}''
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[[folder:Music]]
->''I've just seen a face''
->''I can't forget the time or place''
->''And we'd just met, she's just the girl for me''
->''And I want all the world to see we've met''
-->-- '''Music/TheBeatles''', "I've Just Seen a Face"

->''Do you believe in love at first sight?''
->''Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time.''
->''What do you see when you turn out the light?''
->''I can't tell you but I know it's mine.''
-->-- '''Music/TheBeatles''', "With a Little Help From My Friends"

->''I saw you dancing out the ocean\\
Running fast along the sand\\
A spirit born of Earth and water\\
Fire flying from your hands''
-->-- '''Music/EltonJohn''', "The One''

->''Then she appeared, apple Venus on a half open shell''
->''Then she appeared, the first photograph on Fox Talbot's gel''
->''I was a little frightened''
->''Flying with my senses heightened''
->''Cherubim cheered''
->''Then she appeared''
-->-- '''Music/{{XTC}}''', "Then She Appeared"

->''Just one look and I knew''
->''You would make everything clear''
->''Make all the clouds disappear''
->''You're better than all the rest''
->''Who do I love the best''
-->-- '''Music/TheJets''', "You Got It All"

->''Oh dream weaver,\\
I believe you can get me through the night.\\
Oh dream weaver.\\
I believe we can reach the morning light.''
-->-- '''Music/GaryWright''', "Dream Weaver"

->"It was love, at first sight,\\
'Cause baby,\\
When I heard you,\\
For the first time, I knew,\\
We were meant, to be as one."
-->-- '''Music/KylieMinogue''', "Love at First Sight"

->''Then I saw her face\\
Now I'm a believer\\
Not a trace of doubt in my mind\\
I'm in love\\
I'm a believer\\
I couldn't leave her if I tried''
-->-- '''Music/TheMonkees''', "I'm a Believer"
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[[folder:Theatre]]
->''I don't know how or why\\
Or who am I that I should get to hold you\\
But when I saw you all alone against the sky\\
It's like I’d known you all along\\
I knew you before we met\\
And I don’t even know you yet\\
All I know is you're someone I have always known\\
All I know is you’re someone I have always known\\
And I don't even know you\\
Now I wanna hold you, hold you close\\
I don't wanna ever have to let you go''
-->-- ''Theatre/{{Hadestown}}''

->"''Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?''"
-->-- '''Creator/WilliamShakespeare''', in ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt''

->''Your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage: they are in the very wrath of love and they will together; clubs cannot part them.''
-->-- '''Rosalind''', ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt''

->''I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again.\\
Mine ear is much enamored of thy note.\\
So is mine eye enthrallèd to thy shape.\\
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move me\\
On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.''
-->--'''Titania''' to '''Bottom''', ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''

->''When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.''
-->--'''Music/GiuseppeVerdi''', ''Falstaff''
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->'''Lok:''' Tak, I have been smitten by love.
->'''Tak:''' With the Black Mist?
->'''Lok:''' No!
-->-- ''VideoGame/TakTheGreatJujuChallenge''

->''To Wei Ning—\\
More than anything, I hate the idea that we will be remembered as a tragedy. That's not true. I reserve that distinction for the monster that took you from me. But I know it's what you would hate the most. You, who were always so full of laughter.\\
So now, in this moment, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge as the ship named for my vengeance flies me and five others to Luna]], I will remember the happy times. \\
Our first meeting, in the Tower saloon. Your laugh made the glasses clatter. You bought three rounds for the entire room. Pahanin introduced us. You sat me down next to you and plied me with questions about [[ShockAndAwe Stormtrances]]. All things that on any other night would have annoyed me. But that night — because it was you — [[RoboSexual I knew then and there that I never wanted to be without you.]]''
-->-- '''[[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Eriana-3]]''', ''Videogame/Destiny2'', [[FlavorText "Eriana's Vengance"]]
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[[folder:Web Original]]
->''"She only said one sentence to me, but it was so...non-fragmented that I know she has to be the one!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', imitating the male lead of ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn''

->''He grinned, and everything about him was perfect, and I fell in love instantly.''
-->-- '''Cecil Palmer''', ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', describing Carlos

->''"Then a girl with bread in her mouth came dashing by... [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure [Rohan] ]]crashed into her... And they fell in love~ Man, that was dumb."''
-->-- '''Thoth''', ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo''

->"''Love at first sight is the only true love.''"
-->-- '''Blog/WorstMuse'''

->'''Romeo:''' Oh my god, I can't believe we're in love already!
->'''Juliet:''' I know!
->'''Romeo:''' [[LampshadeHanging It's only been one scene! How have you been the past ... two minutes?]]
-->-- ''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIVrj97_rCM Romeo and Juliet, but without any rehearsals]]''"
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