Relationship Longevity Quotes

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.

You're gonna lose looks when it comes with age, but if you have that sense of humor, it will always keep things great in a relationship.

The only question is how to make love stay.

With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed?

Marriage is forever. It's like cement.

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

I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

People say, 'Why is he bored with her?' Because he's a human being, that's why; same way his wife is bored with him. That is marriage - anything that's supposed to be forever, your going to get bored with it. And there is nothing wrong with it, so don't take it personal; if you are with somebody for ten years and they are not bored with you? Then something is wrong with them.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I have three friendships that have lasted a long time, but everybody else has come and gone.

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

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.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

I think maybe the key to having a long relationship is really appreciating that person's life and not trying to own it. It's like just stop trying. We all do it.

We're trying to say that if you, in love, when you're not true to yourself, the love won't last. Because love is complex, and we always have the dark sides and the sad sides.