Fading Affection Quotes

And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?

I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?

Somewhere we went wrong Our love is like a song But you won't sing along Have you forgotten About us

After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.

My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was