evolution of love Quotes

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

But like everything else, love changed.

Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary,dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you? In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love. You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts.

Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.

For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.

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.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Love never goes away; it just changes form.

A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.