proverb · Words worth keeping
Love kills time and time kills love.
Love kills time and time kills love.
Understand the thought
Meaning in plain English
Love killing time and time killing love reverse the same two subjects. The saying contrasts absorbed companionship with the possibility of affection fading.
Example
Someone appreciates an evening that seemed to pass quickly while acknowledging that affection can change without assuming it must end.
Deeper explanation and when to use it
Kills intensifies the contrast as an image rather than literal harm. A useful reading recognises the bittersweet reversal without claiming every relationship declines or that time alone causes a separation. The supplied pass-away gloss fits the broad contrast but does not establish a universal emotional timetable.
When to use it
Use it to explain the reversal with differing relationships respected.
Keep in mind
No inevitable romantic decline, literal violence or fixed recovery timetable is established.
An interpretation of the words, not a claim about their earliest origin.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Traditional
Attribution: traditional - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- Date unknown