Love Decay Quotes

Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.

Everybody knows that love goes away.

Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

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.

We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love