Love's Endurance Quotes

I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.

Since time immemorial we've explored these ideas of tragedy, the things people do for love, the great weight that occurs when love is taken away and the great length and the heroism that people will exhibit to fight for the ones that they love.

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

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

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

I love what's left after love has been tested.

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

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

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and not even funny.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

True love never runs smooth, that's what they say, but true love is worth all the pain.

Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?

My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.