Don't you know that love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures -- when all that's on the shelf and done with. Love -- why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over. Brian Moore
About This Quote

This famous quote is by Judy Collins, written in 1964. It is about how love isn't just getting together and sleeping. Love is something that stays with you for the rest of your life. Love is the ability to share the same interests and feelings even after falling out of love. Love means never giving up on someone who has hurt you, because you will always share the same feelings towards them once you fall out of love.

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  1. Don't you know that love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures...

  2. What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.

  3. And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.

  4. And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last judgment, maybe he would be the last one ever and he would walk away now and it would only be a question of waiting for it...

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