A Lifetime Love Quotes

#1. It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetime love - still as strong as the day it happened - & have been punished every single day since.

Cady Groves

#2. A song like 'Once in a Lifetime' is inspired by my marriage - it's a good, life-changing happening in my life. I think when you find your once-in-a-lifetime love, that's what everybody's looking for.

Keith Urban

#3. I love you. Those three words have a deeply embedded history. They come with a whole lifetime of laughter and tears. So when I say them, I hope you feel the weight of my words because they bear everything I hope. They bear everything that I am.

June Gray

#4. Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime.

Ann Rinaldi

#5. Jessica, falling in love can't always be a happily ever after or a once in a lifetime kind of story. Those happen in books, in movies. This is life and it's real. Life has no script, no outline. We broke the rules of love long ago. All I know for sure is that with you, the rules will never apply.

Kathryn Perez

#6. Love; I consider true love happens once in a lifetime. I really don't understand when people love someone and marry someone else. Either they never loved anyone at first place or they befool themselves by saying that we have moved on.

Ritu Chowdhary

#7. Maybe love was some combination of friendship and infatuation. A deeply felt affection accompanied by a certain sort of awe. And by gratitude. And by a desire for a lifetime of togetherness.

Chinelo Okparanta

#8. "I love you" takes 3 seconds to say, 3 hours to explain, and a lifetime to prove.

Wiz Khalifa

#9. Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.

Francine Rivers

#10. I'm uncontrollably in love with Vivian. In such a short amount of time she's infiltrated my thoughts, cast a spell over my body, and wormed her way into the deepest part of my heart. A day without her would feel like a lifetime without breath, an eternity without light.

Jewel E. Ann

#11. You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple "I love you" from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life.

Alberto Villoldo

#12. For two people to commit themselves not simply to marriage, but to a lifetime of mutual love and submission in imitation of Christ is so astounding, so mysterious, it comes close to looking like Jesus' stubborn love for the church.

Rachel Held Evans

#13. Trust is the only thing that can help relationships last a lifetime!

Mohith Agadi

#14. I did love him. But I did not love him like I loved Dutchy: beyond reason. Maybe you only get one of those in a lifetime, I don't know. But it was all right. It was enough.

Christina Baker Kline

#15. There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. True love was a language, so many looks, touches and one word references that told the other more than full sentences of paragraphs, more than full outpourings of speech.
Our language was extensive and beautiful, and over a joyful lifetime together, we stayed fluent in it.

R.K. Lilley

#17. We had twenty eight days together but it feels like a lifetime. She's right, without her it feels like I'm being strangled and fighting for air. I can't just sit here day after day wishing I could at least see her face. -Colin

K. Lars

#18. You don't throw away the love of a lifetime because someone gets injured - that's when you prove what your love's really made of.

Nicole Williams

#19. Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime.

A.D. Posey

#20. Being a justice. If you love law the way I do ... you're given the job of a lifetime ... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

Sonia Sotomayor

#21. I felt so much pride, so much love. You get a handful of days like this in a lifetime. Take in every minute. They'll be over soon enough, and you never know what tomorrow will bring.

Tucker Elliot

#22. I didn't just want Nate to love me. I wanted him to love me the way I loved him. The kind of love that's so big it would last beyond a lifetime.

Samantha Young

#23. Loving for beauty is like vowing a lifetime commitment to a rose. No-matter how sweet-scented or pink "petald", every rose withers.

Moffat Machingura

#24. One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.

Robert James Waller

#25. Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.
It's staying with [them] now because [they] need you; it's knowing you ... will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures - when all that's on the shelf and done with.

Brian Moore

#26. Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

Tennessee Williams

#27. People love to say, "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime." What they don't say is, "And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod." That's the part of the analogy that's missing.

Trevor Noah

#28. We are all born free
and spend a lifetime
becoming slaves
to our own
false truths.

Atticus Poetry

#29. In a church of my own we're perfect together
I recognize you in the stained glass

Heather Nova

#30. I'd love to promise a lifetime to you. I just don't have one to give.

Kelly Rimmer

#31. A journey of a lifetime is measured by memories, not by time.

Debasish Mridha

#32. I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

Craig Claiborne

#33. It takes but a moment to fall in love; it takes a lifetime to forget it.

Debasish Mridha

#34. He had known the rarest of things -love, real love - he'd held it in his hand and he'd thrown it away. What was left for him? A lifetime of second-bests

Jennifer Donnelly

#35. We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

Dag Hammarskjold

#36. First loves were powerful and private,and they stayed with you for a very long time. A lifetime.( ... ) There would always be a small,intimate piece of your heart tucked away for the person you loved first.

Lauren Weisberger

#37. She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.

Patricia Briggs

#38. Great love only comes once in a lifetime, if you're lucky.

Menna Van Praag

#39. Now I realized just how stupid I had been to even think that I might be able to undo a lifetime of love and attraction in just one conversation.

Bella Forrest

#40. Once in a lifetime "True love" comes in your life. That is made just for you and you should not lose that chance of grasping it.

Lovely Goyal

#41. It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth. Only Apple can deliver this kind of innovation in such a beautiful, integrated, and easy to use way. It's what we love to do, it's what we stand for.

Tim Cook

#42. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Bette Davis

#43. One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

Freddie Mercury

#44. God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families ... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.

Kirk Cameron

#45. For such gestures one falls hopelessly in love for a lifetime

Virginia Woolf

#46. Work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

Ruth Benedict

#47. Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only ... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.

Jennifer Worth

#48. Playing is a game. Love is an act. Don't pretend to love someone when all you plan to do is play. Love is not a game. It is a lifetime commitment.

Kemi Sogunle

#49. For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.

Judith Viorst

#50. To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.

Khaled Hosseini

#51. Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.

J.C. Ryle

#52. And I will make you mine all over again. Every day, for the rest of my life, Solnyshko. That is my promise to you. I will make you fall in love with me every day for a lifetime.

A. Zavarelli

#53. Yeah, well, love doesn't always beat out the fear."
"Sometimes it does," he replied with a smile, pecking her on the nose.
"Christ, Driggs. You're turning into a Lifetime movie."
"Your defense mechanisms are captivating, as always.

Gina Damico

#54. Pour love into someone's mind,
and you have them for days.
Pour love into someone's heart,
and you have them for years.
Pour love into someone's soul,
and you have them for a lifetime.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#55. It is easy to tie someone with love, but it takes a lifetime to untie the knot of love.

Debasish Mridha

#56. Life is a lifetime opportunity to make the right choice to be great.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Listen ... You could spend a lifetime trying to understand the works of evil men. Their joys are not ours. They love to inflict pain, create suffering, cause harm and death. It empowers them, for beneath the skin they are empty and worthless.

David Gemmell

#58. We'll meet again, but you're a lifetime away, and I need you now.

Karen Quan

#59. I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a once-in-a-lifetime. You could never leave me; that's why I am not more upset. You can't possibly break these feelings. They stretch, and they last.

Jodi Picoult

#60. I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#61. She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.

Lawren Leo

#62. I think of what Mamey told me long ago: there are many ways to love and be loved. Too bad it's taken most of a lifetime for me to understand what that means.

Christina Baker Kline

#63. The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Stephen Kendrick

#64. Smile at someone, and you have them for a second. Wink at someone, and you have them for a minute. Hug someone, and you have them for an hour. Kiss someone, and you have them for a day.
Love someone, and you have them for a lifetime.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#65. Someone who touches your heart, all be it a mere fleeting moment, means no less than those who stay a lifetime. The longing is no less, and your life will never be the same after their gentle caress burns a swathe through your soul as there it will remain until the end of time...

Virginia Alison

#66. Don't you understand how much even one day of loving each other is worth? Some people are separated by distances they can never cross. All they can do is dream about each other for a lifetime, never having what they want most. How foolish, how wasteful to have love within your reach and not take it!

Lisa Kleypas

#67. A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.

Zicheng Hong

#68. Wise individuals frequently say very little, but what they do say hits the mark. Such remarks often remain in the mind of the recipient for a long time, possibly a lifetime.

Donna Goddard

#69. People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#70. Even now I'll see her looking at him, her eyes milky yet full of longing, and all he ever gives her is a gentle, absent nod. Perhaps this is the nature of true deprivation - a lifetime of love, tenderly spurned.

Jane Avrich

#71. Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature. That's why we're given a lifetime to learn it.

Rick Warren

#72. There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley's Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

Jamie Ford

#73. Saying 'I love you' only takes seconds, but proving it takes a lifetime.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#74. Wise men would give away entire kingdoms in exchange for the love of a lifetime." Logan lifts his glass and locks eyes with mine. "And some would give far more than kingdoms.

Addison Moore

#75. When he spoke those words, it seemed to Julian that the hatter had put off falling in love with his wife until he had already lost her. 'You only love truly once in a lifetime, Julian, even if you aren't always aware of it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#76. Take outside - freedom. What is it? What does it mean to a madman? I'll tell you, we go years through a lifetime with no love, no sex, no nice food and no nice clothes. So when it comes ... we choke on it! The kindness strangles us; we can't cope, so we make pigs of ourselves.

Stephen Richards

#77. She might not be able to fix the
past, but she was willing to spend a
lifetime showing him what love could
be: beautiful not ugly, uplifting not
destructive, and more precious than
diamonds.

Kitty French

#78. People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.

Ethel Person

#79. We're all on the journey of a lifetime. God is our shepherd, and we have only to do what He asks of us. Kindness for one another, love for each other, that is what will change the world. Medicine can heal the body. But only God can make well the human soul.

Lurlene McDaniel

#80. Don't stretch a season out to a lifetime. Know when to let go.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#81. Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.

Carew Papritz

#82. Life is given to us to be lived...Most of us spend an entire lifetime preparing to live." What is it that you are doing ...LIVING or PREPARING TO LIVE at some point ! Are you waiting for the IF AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS or Are you living NOW ! A thought that changed my life forever !!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#83. Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.

Angelica Hopes

#84. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

Coventry Patmore

#85. It seemed, then, that a lifetime would not be long enough for me to act with Joey the act of love.

James Baldwin

#86. They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.

Kathryn Stockett

#87. I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

Len Wein

#88. Midnight Omen Deja vu - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean ... at least once in a lifetime.

Marti Melville

#89. All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.

Ian McEwan

#90. Ah, I am the judge of dreams, and you are the judge of love. Well, I find you guilty of dreaming good dreams, and sentence you to a lifetime of working and suffering for the sake of your dreams. I only hope that someday you won't declare me innocent of the crime of loving you.

Orson Scott Card

#91. Thanks to a lifetime of brainwashing by Disney and Lifetime and Hallmark, she naively believes glimpsing God during an epic fuck somehow translates into some kind of happily ever after with her Prince Charming.

Lauren Rowe

#92. I knew I had to let you go, but I didn't know how. I could barely go a week without you, so how the hell could I go a lifetime without you?

Allie Everhart

#93. What you give with love stays with you for a lifetime.

Debasish Mridha

#94. You say goodbye to the people you love thousands of times in a lifetime: every time they walk out of the front door; every time you hang up the phone; every waved farewell. You just never know which of those goodbyes is going to be the last one.

Dani Atkins

#95. Love may endure a lifetime, but it is less reliable on a day-to-day basis.

Ellen Feldman

#96. A real, true love that makes a human being believe in the power of destiny happens only once in a lifetime.

Natalie Ansard

#97. First love is only once in a lifetime, and it remains only in memory.

Jessica Simpson

#98. You only get one true love, one soulmate. Not everyone is lucky enough to find that person in a lifetime.

Penelope Ward

#99. We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this
through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#100. A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden