Relationship Decline Quotes

Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen all at once—I suppose that only means that it had been happening for a long time.

Love dwindles by pairing.

Love wears off too quickly.

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?

A new couple does a lot of things for each other. And slowly they lose interest and it affects the relationship. It is a part of life and a lot of people experience this.

Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.

I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

I know you'll never love me like you used to.

Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past. I knew what was happening, of course. As we were drifting apart, I was becoming more desperate to save what we once had shared; like a vicious circle, however, my desperation made us drift apart even further.

Another reality about relationships is that they are never static. All of us experience changes in relationships but a few stop to analyse why a relationship gets better or worse.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

When do we put on the lingerie? Always at the beginning of the relationship - first couple of months, strutting around the bedroom wearing a teddy. Yeah, six months later, you've stopped shaving your legs and you look like a teddy.