Gary Chapman Quotes

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.

I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

When we were writing songs for the Eagles, Don Henley would be involved in some new love relationship, and he was always excited about them. But we were all waiting for the day that they would break up.

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

You don't always marry the love of your life.

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.