15 Beautiful Quotes About Love In Old Age

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There’s something precious and unique about love in old age. In honor of Valentine’s Day, I hope you’ll share these lovely quotes with the residents at your nursing home who have found this special kind of love.

• Happiness in marriage is a moment by moment choice. A decision to love, forgive, grow and grow old together. (Fawn Weaver)

• It doesn’t matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. (unknown)

• The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love an old man has for his old wife. (Will Durant)

• Mature love is not caught up in fantasy. It is willing to see someone for who they are and choosing to love them fully. (Thema Davis)

• The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make—not just on your wedding day, but over and over again—and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. (Barbara de Angelis)
• Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! (Leo Buscaglia)

• I love it when I see old couples together because it makes me believe that true love does exist. (unknown)

• Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of being. Not that you are in love—now you are love. (Osho)

• It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love’s highest intensity doesn’t necessarily mean its highest quality. (Booth Tarkington)

• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. (Bruce Lee)
• Old couples who are still in love are one of the cutest things in the world. (unknown)

• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Mignon McLaughlin)

• As we grow older together, as we continue to change with age, there is one thing that will never change…I will always keep falling in love with you. (Karen Clodfelder)

• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. (Arthur W. Pinero)

• Kiss like it’s your first. Hug like it’s your last. (unknown)

 

Do you have a favorite quote about love to share with my readers? Please post it in the comment section!

Here’s another article you’ll want to check out before Valentine’s Day: How Old Is Too Old For Romance?