Quotes About Love Not Lasting

#1. I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.

Charles Dickens

#2. Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.

George Monbiot

#3. For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Lorrie Moore

#4. It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.

Mindy Kaling

#5. The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love ... the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

Jodi Picoult

#7. I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely devoid of meaning, because they had never turned into anything serious or deep, never translated into a lasting relationship.

Paulo Coelho

#8. I do not NEED a man. That was an impossible thought when I married John thirty years ago. It was unimaginable even seven years ago. I finally understand why lasting love has eluded me: the relationship I've been searching for all along was with myself.

Shary Hauer

#9. I felt utterly stripped of safety and love. And so, what tormented me most as I shook through August of 1988 wasn't the nausea and chills but the recurring fear that I'd never have lasting comfort or joy again.

Maia Szalavitz

#10. Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. - Richard Von Krafft

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#11. Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.

C.S. Lewis

#12. And also, where an outstretched hand is no longer a gesture but a moment of love, lasting until sleep, until waking, until everyday life.

Kim Thuy

#13. I have a thing for things that last.

Criss Jami

#14. Love is real
the most real, the most lasting, the sweetest and yet the bitterest thing we know.

Charlotte Bronte

#15. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

#16. I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

Jennifer Beals

#17. The key to finding lasting love is to find someone who loves you, battlescars and all.

Sophie Monroe

#18. When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

Jim George

#19. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#20. Lasting love extends grace. No relationship will make it without grace. The Bible tells us that this is part of love. You're not going to have a relationship unless you have forgiveness, mercy, patience, acceptance, grace. You've got to cut people some slack.

Rick Warren

#21. Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

R.A. Salvatore

#22. No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.

Harold Pinter

#23. Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. Human beings, in their settled condition, are animated by oikophilia: the love of the oikos, which means not only the home but the people contained in it, and the surrounding settlements that endow that home with lasting contours and an enduring smile.

Roger Scruton

#25. And the most extraordinary thing is that, in the end, as you grow older, you continue to go poop once a day if you are in good health, while it is not easy to make love every day. So finally, the pleasure is longer-lasting and more frequent than the other.

Guy Fournier

#26. And wasn't that what love was all about? Not the immediate bone-melting lust and roller-coaster emotions, but the promise of it all lasting, mellowing into something that got stronger, better every year.

Jane Davitt

#27. There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

Victor Hugo

#28. My wish for all people throughout the world is to help teach love, tolerance in each household as part of their daily duty, so as to enrich the hearts and souls of those around them with positive emotions and lasting consideration for each other, so we can all learn to get along in peace and harmony

Consolee Nishimwe

#29. Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.

Suzanne Collins

#30. In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#31. It is a great gift to find lasting love - one that gives for every bit it takes.

Renee Ahdieh

#32. Love is so whimsical in both sexes that it is impossible to be lasting. But my heart is particular and contradicts my own observation.

John Gay

#33. Admire and appreciate your man and he will be happy on your side

Linda Alfiori

#34. The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.

Larry Sanders

#35. It doesn't have to be logical, it doesn't have to be love in the usual sense. It doesn't even have to be long lasting. Usually it isn't. But whatever it is, it is real and powerful while it lasts, and there's no point denying it.

Lynn Hall

#36. Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.

Owen Feltham

#37. There was no lasting happiness ... You just need to be grateful when it comes ...
There was no eternal sadness ... You just need to be patient until it goes
So ... whatever happens, life must go on ..
Just live and love your life ... because we are not immortal .. # andry_lavigne

Andry Lavigne

#38. Valentine's Day is an extraordinary moment for recalling the lasting power of a true love.

M.F. Moonzajer

#39. I know now that I have to speak from eternity into time, from the lasting joy into the passing realities of our short existence in this world, from the house of love into the houses of fear, from God's abode into the dwellings of human beings. I

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#40. Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#41. Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

John Fletcher

#42. Good works lean on each other.
Great works lean on Faith and Hope.
Lasting works lean on Love.

Jackson Badgenoone

#43. No way was she forcing Reece into a mating he didn't want. Wolves mated for life and it wouldn't be fair to either of them. And she wasn't ashamed to admit that she wanted love and a lasting partnership. She refused to settle for less.

Savannah Stuart

#44. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also - I must put it crudely - good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.

C.S. Lewis

#45. The last love is the most lasting of loves

Amit Abraham

#46. Lust presented as love will not last

Ravi Samuel

#47. Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

Alan Zweibel

#48. Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#49. Camus said 'Love Lasts or Love Burns'. I want a Lasting Burn-just nothing requiring a series of painful treatments by a rubber-gloved Doctor

Josh Stern

#50. A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#51. But what doesn't die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

Gloria Whelan

#52. The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

Baron De Montesquieu

#53. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

Simon Pegg

#54. I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

Shilpa Shetty

#55. A life of short duration ... could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

Viktor E. Frankl

#56. Love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

William Shakespeare

#57. I smile and I think that one human being must always be discovering another - through love. And that this is the most important thing on earth, and the most lasting.

Tadeusz Borowski

#58. And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

Lisa Kleypas

#59. FOCUS ON YOURSELF AT ALL LEVELS: BODY, MIND & SOUL. THUS, WHEN THE RIGHT MAN COMES TO YOUR SIDE, YOU WILL BE READY TO WIN HIS HEART.

Linda Alfiori

#60. Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.

Nike Thaddeus

#61. It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was lasting, and I loved it so much. I also love Nora Ephron. I gobble up everything she writes. Also, I love Anthony Bourdain, very irreverent and funny.

Isabel Gillies

#62. Love ... is friendship. A deep, lasting foundation that you both decided to set on fire.

Nessie Q.

#63. Remember, while words can be powerful, eloquent, and lasting, it is our committed action that will ultimately serve as the defining factor of our relationships.

Steve Maraboli

#64. There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

Moliere

#65. I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change.

Marti Noxon

#66. Love is helping people toward the greatest beauty, the highest value, the deepest satisfaction, the most lasting joy, the biggest reward, the most wonderful friendship, and the most overwhelming worship - love is helping people toward God.

John Piper

#67. The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire ... driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!

Carson McCullers

#68. ...real love, lasting love, wasn't blind. It was wide-eyed and accepting. It was give and take. It weighed the good against the bad. It saw all the dark recesses and didn't wither.

Megan Bryce

#69. There's that thing that if you want to have any kind of lasting love, I think you have to love the whole person and not just the parts of them that you choose.

Paul Dano

#70. You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Aldous Huxley

#71. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

#72. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

Richard Rolle