The Edge Quotes

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

We survive our love because we go on loving.

Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

The half-life of love is forever.

How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

Love is lovelier the 7th time around.

Time was too much a part of love, for even in fairytales the proof of love was not its first moment, but its latest ones - that people lived happily ever after. Love at first sight was nothing but infatuation until proved by time.

Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

When I first saw you, I saw love. from You're Still The One

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.

The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.