I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.
Interpretation
Love is characterized by unwavering loyalty rather than fleeting appearances or excitement.
In this quote, Sylvester Stallone expresses that true love is defined by absolute loyalty and dependability rather than just physical attraction or transient feelings. He emphasizes that while people and their looks may change over time, the strength of loyalty in relationships endures, making loyalty the true essence of love, even if it may not always be dramatic or thrilling.
In practice
This quote can be used during a wedding speech to highlight the essence of true love.
When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.
When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.
At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.
I'll always have this blue-collar connection. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.
Love is like ice in the hands of children.
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.