You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
WS William ShakespearePlaywright & poet · 1564–1616What this quote means
Genuine love is steady. It does not vanish the moment circumstances or feelings shift; it holds firm through change.
Context
English playwright and poet whose lines on love, time, and being remain the most quoted in the language.
This line is among the quotes by William Shakespeare that readers return to on love, drawn from Sonnet 116 — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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