“The worst was this: my love was my decay.”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”
Source: Finnikin of the Rock
“The garlands fade, the vows are worn away;
So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.”
Autumn, line 70.
Pastorals (1709)
“By far the worst pain
Is not to understand
Why without love or hate
My heart's full of pain.”
C'est bien la pire peine
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon cœur a tant de peine!
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 13, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 71
Disaster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare:
Oh, ever thus, from childhood’s hour,
I ’ve seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower
But ’t was the first to fade away.
- Thomas Moore, The Fire Worshippers, p. 26.
“My lovely living boy,
My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.”
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: "My fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world", William Shakespeare, King John, act iii. sc. 4.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“You’re pushing me away to decay like the day that I loved”
Untitled #3
Lyrics, Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994)
“It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.”
