40+ Heartwarming Quotes About Time And Love

“Upon my word, I tell you faithfully
Through life and after death you are my queen;
For with my death the whole truth shall be seen.
Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly;
Their beauty shakes me who was once serene;
Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen.”
-Geoffrey Chaucer (Rondel of Merciless Beauty)

“O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.

And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.”
-Robert Burns (A Red, Red Rose)

“If you were coming in the fall,
I’d brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

But now, all ignorant of the length
Of time’s uncertain wing,
It goads me, like the goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.”
-Emily Dickinson

“If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go
Through time with”
-Jim Croce (Time in a Bottle)

“I’m falling in love again with you
A broken heart could mend if given time
I know why love is forever
Love is forever with you.”
-Billy Ocean (Love is Forever)

“Up to the moment when we said our first hello
Little did we know
Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away
And ever since that night
We’ve been together
Lovers at first sight
In love forever
It turned out so right
For strangers in the night.”
-Frank Sinatra (Strangers in the Night)

“One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again, I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
“Vain man,” said she, “that dost in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise.”
“Not so,” (quod I) “let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.”
-Edmund Spenser (Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name)

“Time won’t go slowly though
I beg it to last
I just wanna be here with you
That’s all I ask
And this could be the end of everything outside our walls
And empires could fall away and cities razed
And I know I’d only wanna fall in love with you
Only wanna fall in love with you…”
-Snow Patrol (Time Won’t Go Slowly)

“I have waited a lifetime
Spent my time so foolishly
But now that I found you
Together we’ll make history
And I know it must be the woman in you
That brings out the man in me
I know I can help myself
You’re all my eyes can see.”
-Foreigner (Feels Like the First Time)

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
-William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.”
-William Butler Yeats

“My love for you gets stronger as tomorrow comes
I know this love will stand
The test of time
And if forever’s not enough for me to love you
I’d spend another lifetime baby
If you ask me to
There’s nothing I won’t do
Forever’s not enough for me to love you so…”
-Sarah Geronimo (Forever’s Not Enough)

“It’s very clear, our love is here to stay
Not for a year, but ever and a day
The radio and the telephone
And the movies that we know
May just be passing fancies
And in time may go
But oh, my dear
Our love is here to stay
Together we’re going a long, long way
In time, the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble
They’re only made of clay
But our love is here to stay.”
-Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald (Our Love is Here to Stay)

“I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure…”
-Aerosmith (I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing)

“in a world
full of
temporary things
you are
a perpetual
feeling.”
-Sanober Khan

“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.”
-John Keats

“You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by
And when two lovers woo
They still say “I love you”
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by.”
-Herman Hupfeld (As Time Goes By)

“I see forever when I look in your eyes
You’re all I’ve ever wanted I always want you to be mine
Let’s make a promise till the end of time
We’ll always be together and our love will never die
So here we are face to face and heart to heart
I want you to know we will never be apart
Now I believe that wishes can come true
‘Cause I see my whole world; I see only you.”
-FireHouse (When I Look Into Your Eyes)