Lasting Affection Quotes

Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person. ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live.

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held them in your arms or dreamed you did. You can forget a lot of things in life, but not that honey to end all honeys.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

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

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

When I first saw you, I saw love. from You're Still The One

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

When you love someone it is forever, or it was never really love at all.

I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.

But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.

You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever felt that you really knew her and that it was what you knew that you loved, and if you remember what it was you once knew, why is it so crazy to retain that love still?

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

The romantic love of my life, I'm sure, was Burt Bacharach. I had a few that were wonderful, but I married him, and that's going pretty far.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?