Love Decline Quotes

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

Falling in love in our generation just isn't as popular as it used to be.

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend, but that pretension makes you a hypocrite. And your pretension cannot deceive the woman, because she has known your love and the pretension cannot become the substitute. The only way is to separate - in friendship, because you have given each other so much.

love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?

How could you stop loving me?

God forbid you sing about love. It's a lost concept.

Wheresoever we seek our own, there we fall from love.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.

Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

I know you'll never love me like you used to.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.